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Jethro Tull a scientific farmer who was the inventor of the seed drill.
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John Kay, a machinist, made a shuttle that sped back and forth on wheels.
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James Watt, a mathematical instrutment maker, figured out a way to make the steam engine work faster while burning less fuel.
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Malthus wrote an essay arguing that population tended to increase more rapidly than the food supply, this became true in the 1840's.
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A carpenter named William Cockerill illegally made his way to Belgium.
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In the late 1800's Carnagie Steel Company and Standard Oil Companies sprang up.
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During the war of 1812, Britian blockaded the USA. They were trying to keep the USA from engaging in international trade.
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Investors revoulutionized the American textile industry.
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Ricardo wrote an essay in 1817, stating that underclasses would always be poor.
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In the lte 1820's Lowell, Massachusetts, became a booming manufactoring center and model for other towns.
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Josh Stuart Mill founded a cooperative community called New Harmony, he intended this place to be a perfect living place.
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Trials were held to choose the best locomotive for use on the new line.
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The Liverpool-Manchester Railway opened officially in 1830.
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A French writer named Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about the brutal conditions in American prisons.
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In 1833 the Factory Act was passed by parliament. It stated that children under nine could work in factories.
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Britain finally abolished slavery throughout its empire in 1833.
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Samuel Morse, a New England painter. He was the first to send electrical signals over the telegraph.
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Samuel Crompton combined features of spinning jenny and the water frame to produce the spinning mule.
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The Ten Hours Act limited the workday to ten hours for women and children who worked in factories.
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In 1848 The Communist Manifesto was published.
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The movement for the right for women began as early as 1848 in the United States.
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Many states were starting public school systems in 1850.
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The Union won the Civil War in 1865.
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A group of reformers organized the National Child Labor Comitee to end child labor.
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The U.S. Supreme Court objected to the federal child labor law. They ruled that it interfered with states right to regulate labor.