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The Agrarian Revolution,the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution brought to lots of changes in all over Europe both to the cultural and literary aspect.
INCREASE IN POPULATION -> MORE PRODUCTION -> INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION -> BRITAIN BECAME                                                                                                                                                          AN INDUSTRIAL COUNTRY
During the Industrial revolution there were lots of invenctions:                                                                                                            SPINNING JENNY                                                                                                                                                                                                  WATER FRAME                                                                                                                                                                                                         WATT'S INVENCTION -> STEAM ENGINE -> NEW FACTORIES AND IRON FIELDS -> BRITAIN BECAME                                                                                                                                                                          CHEAPSKATE,WATERWAYS -< ECONOMICAL SUCCESS IN TRASPORTS

The effects of industrialisation in the life of urban people were:                                                                                           
Worsening in the standard of living                                                                                                                                                       
Phenomenon of urbanization                                                                                                                                                                        
Long working hours                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
No elementary public servicies                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
Pollution                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Worker's Alienation: workers were less important than production                                                                                              
Exploitation of working class children : they were not paid, they were chosen as a work force because they were malleables and fast learning and cheaps.
Increment of life expectancy                                                                                                                                                                              
Improvements in the standard of living                                                                                                                                                       
Comfort and public/healt servicies                                                                                                                                                                       
Car                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
Social welfare benefits                                                                                                                                                                                       
Electricity                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
European importation: improvement in traffic
NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIALISATION:
It became a global phenomena -> SPREAD OF CONSUMPTION AND POLLUTION
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1760: George III came to the throne of england,which was a powerfull and settled empire.

-America was a Britain's colony.
-Britain imposed new taxes to the american colonies because the UK needed money to finance it's policy of safeguard.
-the American started a rebellion whose motto was "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION".
As a result,the Americans were divided into : PATRIOTS AND LOYALISTS

4th July 1776 -> DECLARATION OF INDIPENDENCE BY THOMAS JEFFERSON
-> colonies were a new nation
-> all men had a national right to "life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
-> the consent of the governed was necessary to claim the right to rule for governments

TREATY OF VERSAILLES: The UK recognized the United States of America
-> FEDERAL CONSTITUTION
-> GEORGE WASHINGTON WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT
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THE NAPOLEONIC WARS:
UK VS FRANCE
Britain feared an invasion, but it was stronger than France from the point of view of navy (Admiral Horatio Nelson)

France soffered a russian invasion and therefore it became weekener than before. This was the main reason of it's defeat in the battle of Waterloo.
The Napoleonic wars brought both France and UK to expensive costs and therefore to interior conflicts and discontent.

Durint the REGENSY ( the last period of the Napoleonic wars ) there were:
-Abolition of slave trade
- The Luddite riots: a turmoil against the inhuman conditions of workers in the factories
-1819 Peterloo massacre by soldiers