America as a Superpower

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This paper examines how the end of the 1812 war resulted in the emergence of two important phases in which America developed from a newborn nation to a political and economic superpower. These two phases were the Westward Expansion, which happened after the 1812 war and the Industrial Revolution, which had progressed following the Civil War of 1861. It looks at the issues that emerged from Westward Expansion and the Industrial Revolution which turned America into a super 'nation' and analyzes their relationship with the increased opportunities America had (economically and politically) that made the nation successful in its nation building and assertion of democracy all over the world.

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"Economic development gradually increased and improved in the west after the farmers had settled in. Agriculture flourished because of the cheap cost of the land, which enabled people to acquire it, and build their own houses and fields to till and cultivate. After the settlement of the farmers, professional workers also moved westward, such as "doctors, lawyers. Storekeepers, preachers, and politicians." During the expansion, economic prosperity occurred because of the prosperous cotton gin agriculture, which resulted to the emergence of many cotton plantations in the area. Also, the gold rush that happened after the discovery of gold in California in 1848 triggered an onslaught of new "migrants" to the west US area."

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