The industrial revolution contributed the most to 19th century European imperialism due to the high demand for natural resources such as iron and coal for the economic and military needs of the British and the French

that is very true it was also an era of the shortest life expectancy as people in the workhouses were not cared for and worker had no rights and were worked to death

a phrase from a poem by ralph waldo emerson about the battle of lexington and concord. emerson's words read, “here once the embattled farmers stood / and fired the shot heard round the world.”