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Washington’s warning of political parties went unheard as partisan politics became sectional divides in the presidential election of 1796 as the Federalists in New England backed Adams and the Democrat-Republicans in the South backed Jefferson.
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A 20 year problem with no peaceful solution puts American shipping in the middle and at risk leading to war. Following the war, regional political interests began to collide with national political interests leading to conflict within the nation and debates on the role of government.
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As America developed and expanded westward as a nation, it’s foreign policy also began to develop and expand with it. Overtime this would lead to more and more internal problems for the young republic suffering from its growing pains
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In the first half of the 1800s, the textile boom in northern industries linked with an agriculture explosion in southern and western farms created by advances in agriculture, industry and transportation known as the Market Revolution that began the shift in the American economy from an agrarian society to a more capitalist society.
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From the national government’s stance on Indian affairs to the nationalist stance on tariffs and banks, the power of the federal government over the states prevailed as Andrew Jackson’s presidency left a lasting mark on the nation as the power of the national government expanded.
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From the dawn of the young republic, American art had lived in the shadow of European dominance with the Americas having little to no original ideas of art that could be called their own. That began to change in the era of the 1820s-1840s that has been called the American Renaissance.
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The changes brought by the Market Revolution revealed to many that hard work led to economic improvement and with more people having access to the democratic process, felt that they could now impact society and reform their nation in four major ways: religion, temperance, abolition, and women's rights.
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As American grew and began to expand westward, slavery and the southern culture that maintained it grew as well. While seemingly without control over their conditions, slaves did maintain some sense of the ancestral African culture as a form of cultural rebellion alongside real rebellion while southern society attempted to institute white supremacy.
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