HIST 2110Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: American Exceptionalism, Plymouth Company, Salem Witch Trials
26 Feb 2016
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American manufacturing grew during the war of 1812 due to the blockage. American manufacturing started to out pace europe in textiles. Internal transportation efforts largely built by state governments and private companies. People kept moving to the west due to immigration and a high birth rate. Nations population almost doubled to 9. 6 million. Americans are still farmer so the demand for land is still high. Federal government encouraged land growth by taking land from native. Small family farms developed in the midwest from the north. In the southwest the prime attraction was growing cotton, growing cotton meant using slaves, system of slavery starts expanding west. Wealthy people would buy the land small family farms cleared and make plantations all about expansion and wealth. New president was james munro who was from virginia. He worked to unit the divides in the nation. Tried to represent different regions and political social groups.
