industrail revolution

Title: industrail revolution
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industrail revolution

THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the time of the American Revolution, English People began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines. Sometime later they invented locomotives. Productivity began a steep climb. By 1850 most Englishmen were laboring in industrial towns and Great Britain had become the …showed first 75 words of 981 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 981 total…economic success could be judged by the influx of gold, silver, and other precious metals from abroad. Gold and silver could be used to purchase military supplies, which provided a further reason for acquiring them. Liberalism - a political philosophy that emphasizes individual freedom, arose in Europe in the period between the Reformation and the French Revolution. The new liberal order - drawing on Enlightenment thought - placed human beings rather than God at the center of things.

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