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The Industrial Revolution

  • Industrial Revolution begins in Great Britian

    Industrial Revolution begins in Great Britian
  • Increase in transportation type- canals/turnpikes

  • Spinning Jenny by James Hargreaves- efficient production

  • Steam Engine- used as a power source

  • Spreads to the U.S- textile advancements

  • Factories attacked by Luddites in Britian- protest

  • Trade Unions legalized

  • Canals boom- water routes

  • John Deere invents steel plow

  • Sewing machine by Elias Howe- increase in inventors/inventions

  • Bessemer Process- increase in steel production

  • Second part of revolution begins

  • Railroad strike- violence

  • American Federation of Labor formed

  • End of revolutions