Industrial Revolution-Childers

By Beast6930

  • Jethro Tull solved the probem which faced farmers about planting seeds quicker

  • John Kay created a shuttle that sped back and forth on wheels

  • James Watt figured out a way to make the steam engine work faster and more efficient by burning less fuel

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  • Samuel Crompton combined features from the spinning jenny and the water frame to produce the spinning mule

  • malthus-like smith they belived that the natural laws governed economic life

  • ludd was said to have destroyed weaving machinery

  • oil standard-carnagie steel sought to control every aspect of their own industries

  • britain abolishes slavery-william wilberforce led the fight for abolition

  • durring the war of 1812, britain blockaded the united sates, trying to keep it from engaging in international trade

  • francis cabot lowell of boston and four other investors revolutionized the american tetile industry

  • ricardo- created a book that malthus's theory one step futher in the priciples of political economy and taxation

  • Lowell, Massachusetts-had become a booming manuffacturing center and a modelfor other such towns

  • new harmony- founded a cooperative community

  • trials were held to choose the best locomotive for use on the new line.

  • the liverpool-manchestor raillway opened officially

  • alexis de tocqueville had contrasted the brutal coditions in american prisions to the extended liberty of american society

  • factory act of 1833-made it illegal to hire children under 9 years old

  • Samuel b. Morse was the first person to send electrical signals over a telegraph

  • ten hours act of 1847-limited the workday to ten hours

  • widespread revolts shook europe

  • african people finally ended in the u.s. when the union won the civial war

  • a group of progressive reformers organized the national child labor committee to end child labor

  • the u.s. supreme court objected to a federal child labor law