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Jethro Tull
Juthero Tull created a machine to make seed planting more effeicent. He noticed that the seeds were scattered in the field, which was a waste. He created the seed drill to make this easier. -
John Kay
john Kay, a machinist, created a shutte that flew back and fourth on wheels. It would have yarn attachted to weave and it did double the work a weaver could do -
James Watt
Watt figures out a way to make the steam engine to burn less fuel and in 1774 he joined a businessman named Matthew Boulton who he paid to encourge on making more engines -
Samuel Crompton
Crompton combines spinning jeny and water frame to produce the spinning mule -
Malthus
Thomas Malthus wrote an essay arguing that the population was rising faster than the food supply. without wars and epidemics to kill the extra people off then many live poor and miserably -
William Cockerill
Cockerill left illegally from England and went Belgium which he carried secret plans on building spinning machines -
Britain Abolishes Slavery
Parliament passes law that abolishes, or get rid of, slavery in Great Britain -
War of 1812
Start of the war between the United States and Great Britain -
American Textile Industry
Francais Cabot Lowell and four other merchants mechrandised every stage of manfuactured cloth. This revolutionized the American idustry -
Ricardo
David Ricardo took Malthus theory a step forward by writting a book that pretty mush says that the wages should go down as the population rises -
Lowell, Massachusettes
A town was named after Francais Cabot Lowell and it had become a big industrial town with many factories -
New Harmony
A poor town that a British factory owner named Robert Owen had came across. HE had planned to make it a utopia, or a perfect place to live; however, it lasted only three years -
Vote for Best Locomotive to use
Trails were held to vote on which locomotive would be the most efficent. The Rocket had won the majority -
First Railway Opens
The Liverpool-Manchester Railway opens and is the first railway system. It was an immediate success -
American Prisons
French writer contrasted the brutal American prisons to an equal liberty of American society -
Factory Act of 1833
A law passed by Parliment that made it illegal to hire children under 9 and illegal for children 9-12 to work more than 8 hours a day and for younger people 13-17 no more than 12 hours -
Ten Hours Act of 1847
The Ten Hours Act limited the workday hours for women and children to ten -
The Communist Manifesto
When The Communist Manifesto was published it had a few short-term effects. It caused revolts all through out Europe -
Women's Rights Movement Begins
Women begin to fight for their rights in society for things like a job in a factory -
Public School System
States open schools to educate children so that they will have children grow up to be smart and use their knowlage to help the world -
End of Civil War
Union wins the Civil War and, in effect, ended the use of Africans as slaves -
Standard Oil- Carnagie Steel
Two companies called Standard Oil and Carnagie Steel sprang up and wanted to control all aspects of their own company to make big profits -
Samuel B. Morse
Morse was an New England painter and was the first person to send electric signals over a telegraph. This is now known as Morse Code -
National Child Labor Committee
Group comes together to bring an end to all of child labor all across the world -
U.S. Supreme Court Ruling
Supreme Court rules that it interferes with states' rights to regulate labor