Fighting began in Lexington and concord when British troops came to arrest colonial leaders and take colonial weapons
Laborers who had previously worked on farms transitioned to working in factories. Cities became a source of poverty, illness and lacked housing due to the transient volumes
Answer: a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
Another meaning - a state governed under a system of democracy, control of an organization or group by the majority of its members.