It broke down barriers of parochialism; it ended distrust of large-scale effort; it hardened and matured the whole people emotionally. The United States Army fought frequent small-scale wars with Native Americans as settlers encroached on their traditional lands. Walters, rejected Garrison's theology and held that slavery was an unfortunate social evil, not a sin. Making slavery a central war goal energized Republicans in the North, as well as their enemies, the anti-war Copperhead Democrats and ended the chance of British and French intervention. Religiosity expanded greatly after the First Great Awakening, a religious revival in the 1740s which was led by preachers such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.

His government, following the vigorous leadership of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, assumed the debts of the states (the debt holders received federal bonds), created the Bank of the United States to stabilize the financial system, and set up a uniform system of tariffs (taxes on imports) and other taxes to pay off the debt and provide a financial infrastructure. Defenders of slavery argued that the sudden end to the slave economy would have had a profound and fatal economic impact in the South where reliance on slave labor was the foundation of their economy. The exact date for the settling of Hawaii is disputed but the first settlement most likely took place between 940 and 1130 CE. Bryan swept the South and West, but McKinley ran up landslides among the middle class, industrial workers, cities, and among upscale farmers in the Midwest.The American Revolutionary War began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord when American and British forces clashed on April 19, 1775. The American militia proved ineffective because the soldiers were reluctant to leave home and efforts to invade Canada repeatedly failed. The United States Electoral College chose George Washington as the first President of the United States in 1789.

State and federal troops violently attacked striking workers, as this study by Frederic Remington illustrates. Main articles: Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands and Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast The K'alyaan Totem pole of the Tlingit Kiks. Stone and Paulina Wright Davis organized the prominent and influential National Women's Rights Convention in 1850. Large numbers moved into camps run by the Freedmen's Bureau, where they were given food, shelter, medical care, and arrangements for their employment were made. The Compromise of 1820 was repealed in 1854 with the Kansas–Nebraska Act, promoted by Senator Douglas in the name of " popular sovereignty" and democracy.President Madison and most Republicans realized they were foolish to let the First Bank of the United States close down, for its absence greatly hindered the financing of the war. Inspired by revolutionary ideals of the equality of men and influenced by their lesser economic reliance on slavery, northern states abolished slavery.

Sandford ruled that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that free blacks were not citizens of the United States; the decision enraged all major political forces except for southern states. In the Reconstruction era following the war, legal and voting rights were extended to freed male slaves. Excerpt of a reading of Susan B Anthony's 1873 speech at her trial advocating for woman's suffrage, arguing that it was guaranteed by the 15th amendment. Crying " No taxation without representation", the colonists refused to pay the taxes as tensions escalated in the late 1760s and early 1770s. The two armies had their first major clash at the First Battle of Bull Run, which proved to both sides that the war would be much longer and bloodier than originally anticipated.The early British colonies were established by private groups seeking profit, and were marked by starvation, disease, and Native American attacks. A small number of active Northerners were abolitionists who declared that ownership of slaves was a sin (in terms of Protestant theology) and demanded its immediate abolition.

Abolitionism grew in the north in the decades before the Civil War, while southern states entrenched themselves on upholding slavery fiercely. Main article: Labor history of the United States Violence erupted on July 7, 1894, with hundreds of boxcars and coal cars looted and burned. It is written by Ernesto Korovsky and Romina Moretto, and directed by Pablo Vásquez and Pablo Ambrosino.While Quakers populated the city, German immigrants began to flood into the Pennsylvanian hills and forests, while the Scots-Irish pushed into the far western frontier. The Second Continental Congress voted to declare independence on July 2, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence was drafted by the Committee of Five. In the North, the Methodists, Congregationalists, and Quakers included many abolitionists, especially among women activists.