Third Quarter in Review
From Revolution to Constitution
In 1776, the creation of the United States Constitution not only created a new government in young America, but signaled the true birth of a new nation. The new government, created in the image and likeness of its first President, George Washington faced many challenges in it’s first decade. The nation’s second and third presidents, John Adams (2) and Thomas Jefferson (3) would also find many challenges ahead as they tried their hands at governing a new nation. The biggest challenges being our relationships with foreign countries and our relationships amongst ourselves – with the creation of the first political parties.
While the new government was struggling to make a name for itself on a national and global scale, exploration and industrualization were taking place all over the United States. After the size of the nation doubled with the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark set out on a journey to find their way through this new land that stretched "from sea to shining sea" to the Pacific Ocean. The Industrial Revolution changed the way we manufactured in the United States. This period is appropriately labeled “revolution,” for it is about abrupt change. These changes destroyed the old way of doing things, changing the manufacturing base in the U.S from hand-weaving and sewing to using machinery in factories and mills. President Abraham Lincoln once said“ A house divided amongst itself cannot stand ….”, this was in 1863 during the Civil War, little did he know that the division of ideas he was witnessing was actually over 100 years in the making.
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While the new government was struggling to make a name for itself on a national and global scale, exploration and industrualization were taking place all over the United States. After the size of the nation doubled with the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark set out on a journey to find their way through this new land that stretched "from sea to shining sea" to the Pacific Ocean. The Industrial Revolution changed the way we manufactured in the United States. This period is appropriately labeled “revolution,” for it is about abrupt change. These changes destroyed the old way of doing things, changing the manufacturing base in the U.S from hand-weaving and sewing to using machinery in factories and mills. President Abraham Lincoln once said“ A house divided amongst itself cannot stand ….”, this was in 1863 during the Civil War, little did he know that the division of ideas he was witnessing was actually over 100 years in the making.
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