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history assignment

Created by treehuggas on Nov 16, 2010

Last updated: 11/20/10 at 06:29 PM

• Russian Revolution
  1917

  The Russian Revolution was inspired by Marxism and set up a communist-inspired government.

• Rail lines
  1870

  Rail lines were being used in Britain, Europe, and eastern North America.

• Industrail towns and cities
  1850

  Many country villages became industrial towns and cities.

• Employment of children
  1842

  Patience Kershaw's testimony influenced laws passed on the employment of children in mines and factories.

• Communism
  1840

  Karl Marx, a German philosopher, spread the ideas of communism, form of socialism that sees class struggle between employers and employees as inevitable. He favored the proletariat, or working class, against the bourgeoisie, or middle class.

• New Lanark
  1820

  Many people were visting New Lanark to see Robert Owen's village where he built homes for workers, opened schools for children, and treated employees well.

• Protests against labor saving machines
  1819

  skilled artisans who were against labor saving machines, called Luddites, held a riot in Manchester. Labor unions were forbidden from then on.

• Clermont
  1807

  Robert Fulton used Watt's steam engine to power the Clermont up the Hudson River at more than 5 mph.

• Utilitarianism
  1800

  Jeremy Bentham preached utilitarianism, the idea that the goal of society should be the greatest happiness for the greatest number of its citizens.

• Better-quality and cheaper iron
  1779

  Abraham Darby III improved on his grandfathers methods and made the world's first cast iron bridge.

• The Spinning Jenny
  1764

  James Hargreaves invented the spinning jenny that spun many threads at the same time.

• Methodist Church
  1750

  John Wesley founded the Methodist Church which prommised followers forgiveness or sins and a better life to come.

• Steam engine
  1712

  Thomas Newcomen developed a steam engine powered by coal to pump water out of mines.

• Smelting iron
  1709

  Abraham Darby began to use coal instead of wood to smelt iron

• Turnpikes
  1700

  Improvements in local systems of transportation were established such as turnpikes, privately built roads that charged a fee to travelers who used them.

• Rise in population
  1700 to 1800

  Europe's population rose from 120 million to about 190 million due to declined death rates.

• British farmers expand on Dutch ideas
  1700

  British farmers began to use the method of crop rotation.

• Robert Bakewell
  1700

  Robert Bakewell began to breed stronger horses for farmwork and fatter cattle for meat.

• Charles Townshend
  1700

  Charles "Turnip" Townshend urged farmers to plant turnips because they restored exhausted soil.

• Dutch build dikes
  1600

  Dutch build earthern walls called dikes that reclaim land from the sea. They also combined smaller fields with larger ones and used fertilizer from the livestock.

• Cotton
  1600

  Cotton from India became popular and British merchants developed the putting out system.

• agricultural revolution
  1600

  The agricultural revolution takes place and more advanced farming tools and methods are developed.

• Enclosure
  1500

  Rich landowners push ahead enclosure, taking over and fencing off land shared by peasant farmers.