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It took an Industrial Revolution to change this attitude and the Industrial Revolution could not have occur without American ingenuity and its knack for inventiveness.
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sorry, the industrial revolution was already beginning to get underway in england at the time of the revolution; it exploded by the 1820s. the american Industrial Revolution, on the other hand, was in the 1870s.
the british reformed their politics in 1819, again in 1832, and once again in 1867. i suspect if the revolution was tamped down in the 1770s, these reforms would have come a bit faster, with the chance for revolution probably going down after the first set or two of reforms.
however, the resources available to what would be the dominion of the US would be so great that in a hundred years or so the US would probably either be running things in the UK, or the US would have gone its seperate ways- probably more calmly.
what's interesting is to see the influence of the american revolution in europe. would the french revolution have happened without the american one? if no french revolution, no napoleon; without napoleon, no british-dominated Long-Peace on the continent, a much slower unification of germany and italy...
if that was the case, the british empire would probably still be a going concern!
