This is when white people finally get the upper hand (Oh wait they already had it...). The industrial revolution was one of many revolutions that took the entire world by storm, all the way from the US to China to Europe. The industrial revolution allowed countries like England and Portugal to colonize and rule over people in India, Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America by using new and innovative population controlling devices- guns. America, France, and Haiti are some countries of many that had democratic orientated revolutions that tried to change the old monarchy system.