<span>Japan became a representative democracy.</span>
<span>The Erie Canal allwed for the American Midwest to transport their good via waterway to the port in New York City and then out to the world for consumption via trade. The Erie Canal was the largest civic project the United States built up to that point in time and made settling the midwest much more economical.</span>
It wasn't so much the Civil War, but the expansion of the United States that led to the Civil War, that brought about the Second Industrial Revolution, since this expansion brought a need for massive amounts of railroad materials.
