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Jethro Tull invented the seed drill
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James Watt improved the Newcomen's Steam Engine design.
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Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus. Date = The Wealth of Nations published.
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Invented by Samuel Crompton
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Smuggled the design of the spinning machine into the United States
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Jeremy Bentham introduced philosophy of utilitarianism. John Stuart Mill led utilitarian movement in the 1800s.
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In the early 1800's, John McAdam equipped roadbeds with a layer of large stones for drainage, on top he placed a smooth layer of crushed rock.
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Invented by Robert Fulton after ordering a steam engine and attaching it to a boat
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America entered the Industrial Revolution after the passage of the Embargo Act in 1807, and the War of 1812
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Robert Owen who published A New View of Society in 1813 and who organised the first attempt at a socialist community, New Lanark in Scotland
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Revolutionized the American Textile Industry by mechanizing every stage in the manufaturing of clothe
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Created Marxism/Communism
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Cooper testified before a parliamentary committee about the conditions among child laborers in the textile industry.
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Karl Marx introduced the world to a radical type of socialism through "The Communist Manifesto", called Marxism/Communism
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Wrote Novels like "Mary Barton" that show sympathy for the working class.
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Horace Mann of Massachusetts, favored free public education for all children. 1850s, many states began to establish a system of public schools
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Set up Hull House with a friend. The facility eventually included a nursery, a kitchen, a gym, and a boarding house for working women.
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Enslavement of African people ended in the United States after the Union won the Civil War in 1865.
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George Neally invented a smoke-excluding mask in 1877
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Women activists around the world joined together to found the International Council for Women in 1888
