ereby creating a great disparity in wealth. Franklin's man fear was that this disparity of wealth and power would eventually lead to social unrest, and therefore he pushed for the new nation to remain an agrarian one composed of independent producers.
             Thomas Jefferson would follow on Franklin's warnings and became one of the strongest supporters and speakers for the anti-manufacturing cause. Jefferson, like Franklin, saw industrialization as something that would introduce a new evil to the fledgling nation and tear it apart. His studies of prior republics showed him one main thing. "Republic invariably succumbed to despotism" (Licht, 1
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