The forces that drove the revolution of the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s were <u>control, money, political reform, social reform, economic reform, coal, inventors and entrepreneurs, and textile machines. </u>
Enlightenment ideas about government provided a philosophical basis for the revolutions of the late 1700s and early 1800s.
They replaced them with more democratic forms of government. They also triggered a series of nationalist uprisings that let to the formation of new nation-states.
