3RD YR Growth of-the-united-states

1. Growth of the United States
 The consequences of the American Revolution
 How independence helped US to grow
 The foreign policy that helped other revolutions
Impact of the American Revolution
The American Revolution established a new country, the United States of
America. Instead of a monarchy the US was a democratic republic that protected
the liberties of its citizens. The impact of the American Revolution was far-
reaching.
To many people in Europe and other parts of the world, the American
Revolution symbolized a dramatic triumph of people against abusive rulers. The
Americans had put ideas of the Enlightenment into practice. The Declaration of
Independence and the American Constitution would be used as models by other
peoples aspiring independence.
Growth of the United States and a Second Great Awakening
The first century of America was marked by phenomenal growth and
expansion. The 1790 population of 3.9 million had grown to 31 million in 1860. In
1790, the Union comprised 17 states with an area of 890,000 square miles. By
1883, there were 33 states and three times the area. The United States
expanded from Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.
In the 1800 to 1830s, another Christian revival, the Second Great
Awakening reprised the first revival. It started in New England on the east coast,
and followed the westward movement of the nation. It engaged several
Protestant churches, and introduced the tent revival meetings in frontier areas.
Charles G. Finney and other evangelists emphasized the values which had

2. helped to make the nation grow- a strong Protestant work ethic, frugality, self-
reliance, and no drunkenness.
The Second Great awakening in the 19th century encouraged the
distribution of the Bible and bible tracts by Christian organizations and Bible
societies. They encouraged social reforms, in particular the abolition of slavery,
women suffrage, prison reform, and the ban of liquor. After this revival, profound
changes affected America- the Civil war ended slavery; the North industrialized;
settlers went to the West; the Indian wars were won; Hawaii was occupied;
Americans spread Gospel abroad; the Philippines and other Spanish colonies
were annexed; and the US became world power.
The Monroe Doctrine (1823)
After it secured its own independence, the US became a beacon of democracy
and freedom for other countries. It sided the Latin American revolutions in the
1820s. In December 1823, President Monroe declared that the Western
Hemisphere was no longer open to European colonization or influence. Any
attempt to extend European influence in the continent would mean war with the
US. The Monroe Doctrine saved the newly independent republics of Latin
America from being re-conquered by Spain or other European power. The
Monroe Doctrine was important for the peace of South America and for the rise
of America as a world power.
The Gettysburg Address
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln went to Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, where one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War had just ended
in a victory for the North. He was dedicating the battlefield cemetery. The Civil
War had turned “brother to brother”, and Lincoln wanted to refresh the ideas for
which they were fighting.
His speech has been compared to that of Pericles’ oration. The speech
was short, and it might have been forgotten except for the notes taken by a
journalist. It was published, and became one of the classic speeches for
democracy. During the American colonial era, Filipinos memorized and recited
this speech as part of their training for democracy.

3. he invoked the principles of human equality contained in the
Declaration of Independence and connected the sacrifices of the
Civil War with the desire for “a new birth of freedom,” as well as
the all-important preservation of the Union created in 1776 and its
ideal of self-government.
PROCESS OF HEALING
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on
this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and
dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that
nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long
endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We
have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting
place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might
live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not
consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men,
living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far
above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little
note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never
forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be
here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that
from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that
cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—

4. that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died
in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom—and that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”