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Jethro Tull
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John Kay
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It was 1760 when Robert Bakewell inheriated his father's farm. This would lead to him discovering the method of selective breeding
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James Hargreaves
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Richard Arkwright
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This year, Matthew Boulton started to pay James Watt to invent better engines
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Wrote the book Wealth of Nations, founding the idea of Capitalism
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Samuel Crompton
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Utilitarianism is an ideal inspired by the writings and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, with his most important influencial writtings being done in the late 1700's. John Stuart Mill helped add on to this idea in the 1800's
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Edmund Cartwright
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Built a spinning machine from memory, bringing industrialization to the U.S
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Early 1800's McAdam made the first macadam road, so one could travel in the rain without getting stuck
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First successful steamboat trip
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An ideal influenced by the works of Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, and David Ricardo
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An ideal established by people such as Charles Fourier, Saint-Simon, and others, in an attempt to offest the negitive effects of Industrialization.
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William Wilberforce and many others campigned to end Slavery in British Empire. It was ended in the West Indies in 1807, it finally was ended in the whole Empire in 1833
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British Parlament set up an investigation of Child Labor in 1832. The findings of this investigation convinced the Parlament to pass the Factory Act of 1833, making it illegal to hire children under 9, and establishing regulations for the hire of those between 9 and 18
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Communism was an ideal founded by Karl Marx and Friedrick Engels, with their book The Communist Manifesto
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With the end of the American Civil War, between the Union and the Confederacty, America went from a manly agricultural nation to a rising industrial power. The fact that the more industrial Union won against the more agricultural Confederacy might have had an impact on the sudden tech boom and industrialization of areas in the South.
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Women had a constant struggle for Rights in this period. As they only made about 1 third of what men made while working in the factories. This eventually made Womens Activists from countries around the world to join under the International Council for Women.
