Capitalists created the economic force that drove the revolution while the inventors created new technology that made it it easier to create products and make more money which in turn helped the capitalists.
I believe the Zimmerman Telegram. America received a coded message from Mexico, which wasn't so nice.
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They earned money from colonization, so it mainly became a battle of how rich they were. And then the exploration part pretty much meant that they could claim 'new' land (that was already pretty much discovered by Native Americans) and make even more money, along with having power in the New World.
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