Post Texan independence, the notion that America should rule over the entire north continent and that this was its destiny, took root. It went on to romanticise adventures in the West, viewing the Indian tribes as noble savages. […]
The lands inhabited by the Native Indians seemed ‘uninhabited’ to the white Americans. One such tribe, occupying the western side of the Mississippi, were the Cherokees. […]
Owing to it being underpopulated, Texas was franchised out to North Americans. Mexico feared that Texas would attempt to claim independence, supported by the the Anglo-Americans in Texas. These fears came true in 1836. […]
The Missouri compromise divided the state into north and south. North was free territory whereas the southern zone was left open to the extension of slavery. […]
Gender roles in America were not as straightjacketed as those in Europe where woman were viewed as subordinates and restricted to being within the bounds of their homes. […]
The productive jobs that had once enabled women to contribute and be a part of the economic workforce was made redundant. Their only contribution and utility was seen as mere consumers of what the factories produced. […]
What tied together these come-outer sects was their short-term pessimism about the corrupt society around them and their long-term optimism about founding new Jerusalems in America. […]
Evangelical protestant revivalism, though were keen on making reforms, highlighted, successfully, the idea of a Christian America. […]
Americans had formed a constitution in search of self-interest and profits. However, newspapers and voluntary associations create a layer of resistance to political overreach by American governments. […]
In the early 1790s, four Founders of the United States died. By 1835, almost all the Founders had died. The last survivor was none other than James Madison. […]
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