... territories, we will rather concentrate on other main points. First of all, territorial expansion can be explained starting from two main reasons: the explosive population growth and the "restless individual energy of the people" . (Indeed, the rag-to-riches myth was very present in the settlers' mind ... ***** ***** ***** To begin with, America's territorial expansion is a consequence of its dramatic growth. Indeed, at the beginning of the 19th century, the American population reached no more than 5.3 million people, among which approximately 7.3 % only, lived in the west. But throughout...

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... handicraft production movement thus farmers were still very crucial to France's agricultural sector of economy. There was a relatively slow growth of factory industry and there had been low rates of population growth. France was late with their industrial improvements and was behind Britain by forty years. They already had a nation to model their own revolution from and their coal output ... doubled in the early 1850's. Inevitably France was better for the working class that did not have as much dependence on the government because of their independent family units in terms ... the fa...

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... of all families, from these job opportunities allowed them to purchase more manufactured goods, and the increase in population in the middle 18th century equaled a surplus of labor forces to man the machines and factories. With machines such as the flying shuttle that doubled the output of weaving, James Hargraeave's spinning jenny in 1798, and Edmund Cartwright's loom in 1787, the manufacturing ... increase in food production lead to more people being able to get the proper nutrition and the increase in urban populations lead to the increase in industries. However, the increased popula...

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... to 1792 the exports United States exports to Britain were the same as, and in some cases less than, those from 1771 to 1775; despite the fact that the population had nearly doubled. As seen in Joseph Jones" letter to George Washington, America could not even pay the soldiers that gained it independence in the first place. John Jay's "Instructions to the ... ...

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