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1 expansion for non-indigenous people had been
9.3 Pushing West By the 1830s obstacles to westward
resolved through a series of agreements that
expanded and cemented the land holdings of the
United States government. the War of 1812 between
the United States and Great Britain determined that the northwestern boundary of the United States
would not expand into canada. the 1803 louisiana Purchase from France and the purchase of Florida
from Spain in 1819 further expanded these holdings. the conflict between white settlers and native
inhabitants of the trans-appalachian West was resolved in favor of white landholders by forcibly moving
the native american to present day oklahoma, Kansas, and nebraska.
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commercial revolution. as canal boats, steamships, and eventually a system of roads connected the 2
a Market Economy advances in transportation technology and infrastructure served to unite once
isolated areas of the interior of the continent with the trans-atlantic market, fueling an american

interior areas of the continent with the global economy, the demand for american goods in Europe
expanded. Federal and state governments were instrumental in facilitating the economic revolution
by funding infrastructure developments such as the national Road and the Erie canal. these economic
shifts set the stage for cultural shifts, and momentous changes in class and race relations.
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3 Missouri compromise Since the time of the Revolution slavery had been a “morally problematic fissure
point” in america. the northwest ordinance of 1789 banned slavery north of the ohio River and east of
the Mississippi River and the United States ended participation in the international slave trade in 1808.
the pressure to end slavery by the abolitionist movement became a political and cultural challenge for
slave holding southern states. Efforts to maintain the political balance between slave states and free
states resulted in the Missouri compromise of 1819 which determined that the new state of Missouri
would enter the Union as a slave state while Maine would enter as a free state.
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politics. this video explains why this period in american history was called the “Era of Good Feelings” 4
the “Era of Good Feelings” american success in the War of 1812, along with the election of James
Monroe in 1816 combined to finally remove the last vestiges of the Federalist Party from american

despite the financial crises, sectional strife, and political manipulations that continued.
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beyond the sources of the great rivers which communicate through our whole interior” meant that
“no country was ever happier with respect to its domain.” As for the government, it was so near to
perfection that “in respect to it we have no essential improvement to make.”
Beneath the optimism and self-confidence, however, lay undercurrents of doubt and anxiety.
The visit of the aged Lafayette signified the passing of the Founders. Less than a year after his depar-
ture, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams—who along with James Madison were the last of the great
Founders still living—died within hours of each other on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of
Independence. Most Americans saw the coincidence as a good omen for the nation. but some asked
if their republican virtue and self-sacrifice could be maintained in an increasingly prosperous and
materialistic society. And what about the place of black slavery in a “perfect” democratic republic?
Lafayette himself was disappointed that the United States had not freed the southern slaves.
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