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Industrial Revolution
People
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History
9th Grade
03/05/2012

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James Watt
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made the original steam engine more efficient; a key power source for energy and transportation
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Eli Whtney
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invented a machine called the cotton gin that separated the seeds from the raw cotton
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Thomas Malthus
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an economist; wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population"; it said that poverty was unavoidable because population was increasin faster than the food supply
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Jeremy Bentham
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British; advocated the idea that the goal of society should be "the greatest happiness for the greatest number" (utilitarianism)
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Robert Owen
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a utopian; set up a model community in New Lanark, Scotland that said all people are equal
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Karl Marx
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German philosopher; against Utopians; wrote "The Communist Manifesto"; said the community should own everthing and the individual only gets what it needs, not wants
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