Benjamin Franklin once wrote "where liberty is, there is my country." Is he right? Was that the American experience from its colonial settlement to the end of Reconstruction? Can the story of America during that period be written as one of ever greater freedom for an ever greater number of people?

What was one of the advantages that the united states had over europe regarding the industrial revol the united states had a continuous supply of potential factory worker the united states imported workers from europe to work in factories. the workers in the united states were more skilled than the workers in europe the united states didn't actively participate in the industrial revolution. instead they imported most of their goods from other countries.