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Helped Bring about British Agricultural Revolution.
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James Watt, an inventor, built a new and improved steam engine that was faster and burned less fuel. He was funded by Boulton, an entrepreneur.
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In 1733, John Kay invented the flying shuttle, an improvement to looms that enabled weavers to weave faster.
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Adam Smith, wrote The Wealth of Nations. Thomas Malthus, wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population.
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David Ricardo, wrote the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation.
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About 1779 Samuel Crompton succeeded in producing a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin,
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Coalmining
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New Harmony represents one of the less successful American utopian experiments.
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War Of 1812
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Francis Cabot Lowell, mechanized every stage in manufacturing cloth.
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Muhammad Ali industrialized Egypt and reformed Egypt's governement when he took over as leader.
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The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell
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William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Parliment passed an act that made it illegal to hire children under the age of 9.
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British Abolishes Slavery.
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Created Morse code
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The Beginning of the Public Education System
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The Factory Act of 1847 stipulated that as of July 1, 1847, women and children between the ages of 13 and 18 could work only 63 hours per week.
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Karl Marx created the idea of communism in his 23 page pamphlet called The Communist Manifesto.
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The Women's Rights Movement marks July 13, 1848 as its beginning.
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American Civil War:
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John D. Rockefeller
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The first successful caterpillar track is made (it later revolutionizes construction vehicles and land warfare).
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Socialist demonstrations in Berlin, Germany turn into an attempted communist revolution.