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| | 1700s (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | During the 1700s, Britain led the world in new inventions - bigger and better machines to make cloth, iron, chemicals, paper, rope, bricks, glass, and thousands of new commodities. |
 | | As a result of rapid expansion in our cities in the late 1700s, overcrowded slums grew up. |
 | | There was low pay, and there was disease - but the workers had nobody to speak up for them, either in the factories, or in Parliament. |
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