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The Land Enclosure Movement
In order to increase product output and cultivate more efficiently farmers and landowners enclosed land their lands. profit and farm output rose continuously. The enduring impact of this event is the growing labor forces that tend to the machines in the industrial revolution. -
Utilitarianism
This method introduced by Jeremy Bentham explained his theory that people should judge ideas, institutions, and actions on the basis of their usefulness. The enduring impact of this event is the reforms in the prison systems and education. -
Abraham Darby's Experimentation
Abraham Darby experimented with coal which led him to the production of less expensive and better quality iron. The enduring impact of this event is the steam engine and eventually the world's first iron bridge. Darby's new methods of creating better iron made parts for steam engines. -
Key Improvement Made by James Watt
After the British inventor Thomas Newcomen developed a steam engine powered by coal; James Watt wanted to make improvements to better the engine and make it more efficient. the enduring impact of this event is steamships and locomotives. After tweaking the engine it has become a key power source of the industrial revolution -
Locomotives
The steam engine gave birth to the first steam locomotives. They were made to move both passengers and other objects to different places across a country. The enduring impact of this event is the many forms of transportation after the locomotive. -
The Cotton Gin
Eli whitney invented the cotton gin to increase the production of cotton. This invention saved time and money for america. The enduring impact of this event is the many machines it gave birth to afterward -
The Factory Acts Passed in England
The factory acts were used to reduce a child's workday and remove children under the age of nine. Later on children would be required to be educated. The enduring impact of this event is the proper working age of children. Depending on the job nowadays to work you must be 15 or older. -
The Writings of Karl Marx and Engels
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote a pamphlet in which they expressed their ideas about the struggle of social classes and the government. Thanks Marx efforts the enduring impact of this event is free market capitalism.
