Chapter 9 Industrial revolution Leto, Alexandria

  • 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.