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Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill led the utilitarian movement.
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John Kay invents Flying Shuttle
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James Hargreaves invents Spinning Jenny
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James Watt figures out how to make the steam engine work faster and more effiecently while burning less fuel.
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Richard Arkwright invents water frame
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Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus inspired the capitalist reform
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Samuel Crompton invents the spinning mule
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Edmund Cartwright invents power loom
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Eli Whitney invents cotton gin
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smuggled secret plans for building machinery to Belgium, which led to his son, John Cockerill, building an enterprise in Belgium
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French reformers, Charles Fourier Saint-Simon introduced socialism
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reformed Egypt's government and improved communications by industrialization.
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George Stephenson begins work on first railroad line.
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Slavery in the British Empire was abolished in 1833.
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Parliament passed the Factory Act of 1833, which made it illegal to hire children under nine years old.
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Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and the Communist Manifesto
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Women's rights movements began in the U.S. as early as 1848.
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founded corporation, Standard Oil
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founded the Carnegie Steel Company
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The International Council for Women was founded in 1888 by women activisits around the world.
