Instead, by 1815 the United States became something neither group anticipated. Some wanted the United States to become a great fiscal-military state, like those of Britain and France others wanted the country to remain a rural agricultural state very different from the European states. They hated political parties but parties nonetheless emerged. The men who founded the new government had high hopes for the future, but few of their hopes and dreams worked out quite as they expected. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national government to the end of the War of 1812.Īs Wood reveals, the period was marked by tumultuous change in all aspects of American life - in politics, society, economy, and culture. In Empire of Liberty, one of America's most esteemed historians, Gordon S.
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