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- Edmund Cartwright
- loom powered by water
- David Ricardo
- believed that a permanent underclass would always be poor
- Robert Fulton
- built first steamboat (Clermont)
- Friedrich Engels
- wrote Communist Manifesto
- Alexander Graham Bell
- first telephone 1876
- Jethro Tull
- seed drill 1701
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- took on the challenge of prison reforms
- Socialism
- utopian societies
- James Hargreaves
- spinning jenny
- Utilitarism
- greatest amount of good for hreatest amount of people
- John Kay
- made a shuttle that moved back and forth on wheels
- Richard Trevithick
- first British locomotive
- James Watt
- first efficient and improved steam engine
- Samuel F. B. Morse
- sent electrical signals over telegraph
- Thomas Mathus
- argued that population increased more rapidly than the food supply and that the extra people would always be poor
- I. M. Singer
- invented foot treadle for sewing machine
- Luddites
- group that attacked factories
- Robert Bakewell
- bred best sheep to increase mutton output
- Cyrus McCormick
- reaper boosted wheat production
- William Wilberforce
- led a movement to abolish slavery in the British Empire
- John Stuart Mill
- supported cooperative agriculture women's rights, amd legal reforms
- Samuel Compton
- spinning mule
- Laissez Faire Capitalism
- economic policy of letting owners of industry and business set working conditions without interference
- Unions
- groups that negotiated for better conditions and pay
- Adam Smith
- defended idea of free markets, wrote The Wealth of Nations
- Jeremy Bentham
- introduced utilitarism
- Karl Marx
- supported idea of a total classless society
- Eli Whitney
- cotton gin
- John McAdam
- invented macadam road
- George Stephenson
- Rocket locomotive and began Britain's first railroad
- Thomas Mathus & David Ricardo
- supported ideas of laissez faire capitalism
- Matthew Boulton
- entrepreneur that paid Watt a salary