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This 6 page report discusses how the United States developed its own unique 'identity' in the 19th century. Change and establishment of that identity was found in issues relating to race and slavery, the development of the American political system, and the westward expansion of the country. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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well as the developing political system became the dominating and controlling force of the post-civil war American society. Old notions of exploration, government, even agriculture became incompatible with the realities
of the new world and society of America. By 1824, the seaboard states had become relatively well-settled through two successive waves of migration. The
first began after the region was secured to Great Britain from the French by its victory in 1763 in the French and Indian War. The next wave came after
the American Revolution. However, the move West continued for more than a century. It was not until the middle to last decades of the 19th century many sections of the
frontier territories had become sufficiently populated to enter the Union. Life in the frontier territories and states was laborious and dangerous. The effort to establish farms and homes on
virgin land, to cope with Native Americans, and to form communities, local governments, and finally states demanded courage, self-reliance, initiative, a belief in manifest destiny, and endurance. In the frontier
regions, people were valued not for their ancestry or education but for their ability and willingness to work with their hands (Anbinder PG). The development
of those character traits became a part of what most Americans like to think of as an uniquely American point of view, as well as the basis for development of
the American "identity." Impact of Race and Slavery No issue played a more direct role in the coming of the Civil
War than slavery. Notions and debates over the nature of the Union and the revolutionary values of (white) liberty and equality that defined the republic and bound it together.
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