The United States is a nation that has undergone a great transition since time in memorial. Since the second war of independence in 1812 to slavery trade in the 1810s and finally to an industrialized nation in the 1850s. These changes even led to aspirations for state sovereignty in a nation under foreign dominance. It is during this period that James Madison was succeeded by James Monroe as the President of theUnited States after serving for two terms. This essay will unfound the major events that occurred in the 1810s and 1820s, incorporating both the political and economic issues during and after this period. Also, the ways in which the nation began expressing some sense of nationalism will not be left out.
In 1810, The Republic of West Florida declares liberty from Spain after which James Madison the president then took control of parts of West Florida and declared the region as part of the Louisiana Purchase. (Formisano, Ronald, 1983). It is during this year also that the Tonquin lays down sail from New York Harbor with 33 workers of Jacob Astor's lately created Pacific Fur Company on board. The ship arrived at the river of Columbia after 6 months and men founded the fur-trading center of Astoria. In the beginning of 1911, Charles Deslandes led a slave revolution which turned out to be unproductive. The American troops defeated the Native American Tecumseh in the Battle of TippecanoeIn early 1812, the President endorsed a 90-day stoppage on deals with the United Kingdom and Louisiana was declared the 18th state in U.S. On 1st June, the president directed war to be declared on Great Britain by the U.S. congress and the war between the British Empire and U.S. began. (Watts, Steven, 1987). Later in the year, the location capital of commonwealth was shifted permanently to Harrisburg from Lancaster.
1813, James Madison was inducted for his second term as president. In the battle of York, the troops of U.S. destroyed and raid but did not make to hold York’s capital. Later in the year Buffalo in the New York was burnt by the British soldiers.There was Great fraud of stock exchange in 1814. In August, Washington was occupied by British troops who set on fire a number of buildings including the Capitol.1815 began with the New Orleans battle where an invading British force was defeated by the forces of America before the arrival of Hartford convention in Washington. . (Watts, Steven, 1987). In 1816, the St. Louis treaty is signed and Rufus King is beaten by James Monroe in the presidential race. Richard Allen in collaboration with other Methodists of African-American established the African Methodical church in Philadelphia. It was the first denomination wholly sovereign of the churches of the whites.
1817 is marked by the succession of presidential post by James Monroe from Madison. Later that year, Seminole war began in Florida. The accord of 1818 between the U.S. and the United Kingdom launches the northern border line as the 49th equivalent from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. (Hudson, Angela, 2007).The first main crisis in the U.S on finances was experienced in 1819. This same year, the University of Virginia and Norwich were founded and launching of the U.S. naval vessel in Washington occurred.March 1820 is the period when Missouri Compromise became law based on the slavery in U.S. as James Monroe got reelected as president.
There is a belief that a nation can work better independently than collectively, words that best fit the term nationalism. At one point in the History of United Stated, nationalism was not practiced until a certain time when citizens got to know its importance.
The United States of America appeared as a separate country by the time its people had any firm sense of a separate national distinctiveness. Independence and empire remained friendly so long as the liberated and slave states could consent on how to allocate the rewards of western lands. By the 1830s, the Jeffersonianprinciple for hemispheric hegemony had prevailed wide recognition. (David, 1968). As Abraham Lincoln put across in one of his most basic talks, “All the armies of Africa, Asia and Europe united could not by might, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a footpath on the Blue Ridge, in an assessment of a thousand years.” Any intimidation to the unification, he maintained in 1838, “cannot appear from overseas. If demolition be our lot, we ought to ourselves be its instigator and finisher. As a state of freedom, we are obliged to live in the course of all time, or die by suicide.” (David, 1968).
It is clear that the history of the United States has a great follow up one characterized by lots of efforts to succeed. Though sometimes they did fail, they would find their way back and pick up. It the roadmap to independence marked by economic and political development like that of thestate’s building waterways and roads in 1818.
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Hudson, Angela Pulley. Reading between the lines:Creeks, slaves, and settlers on the borders of the U.S. South, 1790s-1820s. 2007.
Watts, Steven. The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820 (Baltimore, 1987)
David M. Potter, the Historian's Use of Nationalism and Vice Versa, in his the South and the Sectional Conflict, 1968, pp. 34–83
