Prior to the Industrial Revolution<span>, which </span>began<span> in Britain in the late 1700s, manufacturing was often done in people's homes, using hand tools or basic machines. </span>Industrialization<span> marked a shift to powered, special-purpose machinery, factories and mass production.</span>
The three naval carriers would play and important role in other battles throughout the war.
The plan by the Japanese prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor was to perform a surprise-attack on the U.S. in which all of the U.S.'s major assets were destroyed; however, the several aircraft carriers that were not destroyed proved detrimental to the Japanese later on; their plan was based on crippling the U.S., but the U.S. was not entirely crippled.
No one event was the actual cause of the revolution. It was, instead, a series of events that led to the war. Essentially, it all began as a disagreement over the way Great Britain treated the colonies versus the way the colonies felt they should be treated.
Americans felt they deserved all the rights of Englishmen. The British, on the other hand, felt that the colonies were created to be used in the way that best suited the crown and parliament. This conflict is embodied in one of the rallying cries of the American Revolution: No Taxation Without Representation.