History of United States from Pre-Colonial Days to 1865

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History of U .S

The development of United Sates from pre colonial times till 1865 shows a steady progress towards achieving the goal of building up a nation that takes pre eminence in the comity of nations . This is a development from the dark pages of history to the advent pilgrims and growth from a purely agrarian economy to an industrialized society . This progress was achieved by adopting appropriate political and social strategies to assimilate the immigrants into the melting pot . The role of the

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The pilgrims of the May Flower when they reached the new lands had decided to recreate a new political society that had practically nothing to do with the established pattern in Europe . The only link with the mother country was Protestantism and that puritan vision exemplified by John Winthrop became the hallmark of nascent and new political society The May Flower Compact clearly showed that though humble and without perceptible intellectual accomplishments , the pilgrims were quite adept at running their own affairs without interference by anybody else . The accent on individualism coupled with Puritanism became the hallmark of the new developing nation

The social and the political structure of the new country slowly evolved from planters ' partly feudal manner to an absolutely democratic structure . Initially the planters had white indentured servants who were slowly replaced by Africans because it was economical to employ them . The economy also developed from agrarian to industrial . The industrial vision is clearly explicated by Alexander Hamilton in his article `On Manufactures , this was possibly the first detailed exposition of industrial vision as it referred not only to division of labor and extended use of machinery but also pointed out to increased employment opportunities , increased immigration and provision of vast open capacity for free enterprise to create an engine of progress

There was a simultaneous political development and this political development was seen in Virginia Ordinance of 1619 and slavery legislation from 1630-1691 . The ideology of Patrick Henry , Hamilton Marshall , and Munro was instrumental in building up a society in which Abraham Lincoln could give a call for The progress of American society is essentially an exposition of the role of government and the growth of enterprise . Based on the principle of representation , the role of the government gradually developed to embrace not only preservation of law and but also the protection of the underprivileged as exemplified in the article of Lydia Child `That Class of Americans Called Africans . The `Munro Doctrine ' is an important document wherein the U .S . for the first time showed its capacity to be a protector of all America and presented a bulwark against the Russian and European expansion in Latin America . This partly isolationist but primarily protection of hemispheric interest showed the development of this new nation as a major player in the global arena

The expansion of the country was slowly taking place and they...