<span>Besides of traveling around the country to gain support as in today's election, one way in which candidates campaigned during this time was to launch anonymous and oftentimes vicious attacks against their opponents in local newspapers. </span><span />
The Industrial Revolution involved a shift in the United States from manual labor-based industry to more technical and machine-based manufacturing. It also paved the way for many manufacturers.
The navigation acts, the Enlightenment, and the Great Awakening on the colonists, were events that, although different among themselves, achieved the union of all the colonies, something that would be the precursor of the War of Independence. While the Navigation Acts were increased hostilities of all American colonies against the British; the Great Awakening on the colonists caused the Revolution in the long run. The British ministers were a higher class, but the ministers of the Great Awakening could break the rules; the new beliefs were also much more democratic and their message was of equality; also the first important event in which all the colonies could participate. They were both points of union for the 13 colonies.
El Alhambre a major region for trade
Indulgences were fake “ tickets to escape purgatory”. The people of the Middle Ages were depressed and only had one religion, catholosizm. These preachers would go around and sell indulgences to people. They said that if you buy indulgences you won’t have to have punishment in purgatory.
