The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the late 1700s and had spread to other countries at the time, like America. People like Thomas Newcomen, Richard Arkwright, Samuel Crompton, Edmund Cartwright and James Watt. Invented machines that brought forward the Industrial revolution. Textiles were the leading industry of the Industrial Revolution, and mechanized factories, powered by a central water wheel or steam engine, were the new workplace. The impact of changing the way items were manufactured had a wide reach that affected many industries in the Industrial Revolution, such as textile manufacturing, mining, glass making, and agriculture which had all undergone changes.
Fighting in Vietnam started in 1954 when technically France tried to reassert its colonial claims to Indochina, although Japan had claims as well. It was primarily a colonial beginning.
The country's economic woes were made worse by the fact that the central government also lacked the power to impose tariffs on foreign imports or regulate interstate commerce. Thus, it couldn't protect American producers from foreign competitors
