Steam boats, rail roads and telegram made communication and work easy and faster.
With money and ships and guns and anger and power and stuff
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Described as "the shot heard round the world," British soldiers (also called red coats) in April of 1775 and minutemen (the colonists' militia) exchanged gunfire at Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. This signaled the start of the American Revolution.
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