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Jethro Tull
One of the first scientific farmers -
John Kay
He made a shuttle that sped back and forth on wheels. -
James Watt
A mathimatical intrument maker at a univerity of Glasgow in Scottland figured out how to make the steam engine work faster and efficently while burning less fuel. -
Samuel Crompton
He combinded features o fthe spinning Jenny and the Water Frame to produce the Spinning Mule. -
Malthus
thomas malthus 1798 argued that population tended to increase more rapidly than food suply. He opposed minimum wage law believed war and epickni helped people become more wealty. -
1799
A carpenter named William Cockerill illegually made his way to Belgium -
Lowell,Massachusetts
is where most of the factories were and the girls stayed in the houses around there -
1812
The USS Constitution defeats the HMS Guerriere. -
1813
francis Cabot Lowell and four other investors revoutionized the american textile industry . They mechanized every stage in the manufacure of cloth -
1829
Trials were held to choose the best locomotive for use on the new line. -
1830's
First -class passangers on the Liverpool- Manchester Railway in the 1830's in covered cars -
1830
The Liverpool-Manchester Railway opened officially -
1831
parliment began investing child labor and working conditions in factories and mines. -
Britian abolishes slavery
Britian abolished slavery in 1833 before the united states and encouraged other countries to do so too -
factory Act of 1833
The Factory Acts were a series of Acts passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to limit the number of hours worked by women and children first in the textile industry -
Ten hours Act of 1847
urther reduced hours of work for children and applied the many provisions of the Factory Act of 1833 to women. -
1848
Elzabeth Gaskell's Marry Barton presents a startlingly accurate portrayal of urban life experienced by many at the time. Gaskell provides a realistic description of the dark cellar dwelling of one family in a Manchester slum -
1865
hte Notheast experienced much industrialo growth in the early 1800's nonetheless the united states remained primarly agricultiral untill the Civil War ended -
1919
the US supreme court objected to a federal child labor law ruling that it interfered with states' rights to regulate labor.