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US History timeline & concept chart: 1789-1860 Early Republic to Antebellum: Difference between revisions

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- Napoleonic Wars impact on U.S.:
  > trade/ blockades
  > both French and British trying to isolate U.S. trade from the other
  > British impressment of U.S. sailors/ merchant ships
- War of 1812
- economic expansion following War
- “American System” adopted, including
> 2nd National Bank
> federal roads
> tariffs
- demise of Federalists, rise of Whig party by election of 1824


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