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Expanding Nation

Expanding Nation
October 18, 2005


THE NATION OF GROWTH
The tide is a changing
At the beginning of the 1900's the nation faced its biggest changes since the revolutionary war. During the time between the revolution and the war of 1812 the economy of the country was largely tied to international trade, if our international partners stopped buying our goods such as tobacco and timber then the whole domestic economy faltered. Americans remained mostly self-sufficient. There was no real local market to adsorb the excess goods produced by the American manufactures.
But the War of 1812 marked an important turning point in the creation and expansion America's domestic markets. Since Britain had enacted an embargo during the war Americans looked to the colonies for there goods. This stimulated the growth of manufacturing, particularly in textiles.
As the nation grew more and more settlers were leaving the states they were born in to move west. The government was selling land for......


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