In the period between 1800 and 1850 America experienced a marked change in national unity. Territorial expansion had a large effect on national unity in this period. Territorial expansion boosted national unity between 1800 and 1823, but it degraded national unity between 1824 and 1850. The time period between 1819 and 1824 was the transitional period from unity to disunity, because national unity fluctuated in this time period. .
Between 1800 and 1823 the Louisiana Purchase and the Treaty of 1818 boosted national unity. First, the Louisiana Purchase boosted unity because it helped spur the Era of Good Feelings and it displayed Western loyalty. The 1803 Louisiana Purchase helped spur the Era of Good Feelings because it marked the beginning of the downfall of the Federalists. The Federalists opposed expansion because they feared that new territories would drain off their New England population and compete with New England economically, which would decrease their potency in America. When the Louisiana Purchase was made in 1803, the Federalists suffered a huge defeat and were reduced to mere sectionalists. Now the Jeffersonian Democrats were clearly becoming America's dominant party in the early 1800's. Because of the Louisiana Purchase, Federalist extremists took drastic action. Aaron Burr, an extreme Federalist, devised schemes to secede New England and New York from America, but he failed. He then attempted to secede the trans-Mississippi West, and he failed again because he could not gather enough support in the West. His failure to gain support displayed Western loyalty to the federal government, a mark of the national unity in this period. The Federalists" declining power set the stage for the Era of Good Feelings, which began in 1816 when the Federalist party died out. In the Era of Good Feelings, nationalism was highly prevalent because one political party, the Jeffersonian Republicans, dominated the country.
rom 1800 to 1850 territorial expansion tore the United States apart. Territorial expansion itself was not a debated issue. ... The first real crisis over territorial expansion took place in 1819-1821 over the admission of the state of Missouri. ... The next jolt to national unity was over the admission of Texas into the Union. ... From 1800 to 1850 America saw a growth in territorial expansion. ...
Expansionist Tension From 1800 to 1850 territorial expansion tore the United States apart. Territorial expansion itself was not a debated issue. ... The first real crisis over territorial expansion took place in 1819-1821 over the admission of the state of Missouri. ... The next jolt to national unity was over the admission of Texas into the Union. ... From 1800 to 1850 America saw a growth in territorial expansion. ...
One of the major reasons for territorial expansion was the American's will to conquer what ever they could. ... National security was a smaller factor in accounting for the expansion. ... Territorial expansion was a must for defence of the nation and to prevent any European involvement in North America. ... The desire for good land and the migration which went hand in hand with this was a driving factor in the territorial expansion. ... So then the government had to move west also, confirming the expansion territorially. ...
Manifest Destiny: American Territorial Expansion - Houston Holdren Manifest Destiny was an ideology that United States expansion into new territories was inevitable and predestined. ... However, starting in the 1800s, there were several issues concerning United States territorial expansion and the inequality of minority groups. ... Another key minority group affected by discrimination during the 1800s through territorial expansion was Catholics. ... However, while the mid " 1800s were an age of territorial expansion and national growth, they also proved to be a gateway for the first wo...
American Expansion During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the United States pursued an aggressive policy of expansionism, extending its political and economic influence around the globe. ... Each episode of expansion created an intellectual friction between those that supported territorial growth and those in opposition. ... For the sake of expansionism, the Americans risked their lives and their safety in wars. ... The willingness of Americans to risk war over such distant and minor disputes demonstrated the aggressive new national mood. ... On one side of the debat...
"Examine the reasons of the territorial expansion in the first half of the 19th Century" " Almost all people have, at one stage or another in their history felt and expressed the need to extend their territory and also to explain and justify their need both to the world and to themselves." ... We can thus wonder why the USA needed to enlarge its country so dramatically and will therefore analyse the reasons of this territorial expansion. ... First of all, territorial expansion can be explained starting from two main reasons: the explosive population growth and the "restless in...
Territorial Expansion of the United States The United States acquired its first piece of land in 1783; this being the 13 colonies that had fought so hard for their independence during the Revolutionary War. There was a twenty-year period where the country was far too busy establishing itself, becoming stable and putting a constitution into effect to be worried about acquiring new territory. ...
Question To what extent was the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century United States expansionism a continuation of past United States expansionism and to what extent was it a departure? ... Similarly, the Industrial Revolution served as a catalyst for expansion, especially in the late 1800s and early 1900s, by supplying more military goods, sparking a desire for wealth and profit through innovation, and developing new methods for expansion. ... Previous territorial acquisitions in the late 1700s and early 1800s (Treaty of Paris, Louisiana Purchase, etc) stemmed from expansionist...
It was his thirst for expansion and Prussian rule throughout Germany that drove him. ... In agreement, Prussia assumed territorial control over Schleswig and Holstein and other German states. ... This war, known as the Franco-Prussia War, resulted in the southern German states binding together in national unity to come to Prussia's aid. ...
