1) George Washington's Presidency.
George Washington helped define what it meant to be a president, as well as set up many customs that would be followed. Firstly, Washington created the cabinet, which acted as advisors for the president regarding both internal services, but also foreign relations. This is reflected in every tender following, in that Presidents appoint their ideal candidates for positions and the Senate confirms them. Secondly, George Washington was known for his leadership quality and able to use his charisma to share his vision and obtain a wide range of support for it. Presidents, as such, tended to be charismatic people who were able to gain traction based on either their polished speak, or gaining traction through talking "for the people". Thirdly, he set the standard of Presidential terms, serving only two terms maximum before relinquishing his role, to set a precedent that future presidents were to follow. This was only broken by a Democratic President who would serve 4 terms from 1932 to his death in 1945.
* Standard of the highest political position in the United States.
2) The Louisiana Purchase.
The Louisiana Purchase was the starting point of the policy the United States (Manifest Destiny) will follow upwards to 1947 with the occupation of Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall Islands. The Louisiana Territory was acquired from France in 1803, which doubled the existing US's land and added 828,000 sq.mi. into the US at the price of ~$18 per sq.mi. This opened up to large amounts of the US central plain, which was used as land for the US agricultural industry, bolstering the market with production of primarily wheat, corn, hay, and cotton in the southern parts, as well as markets for animals such as cattle and sheep. The Louisiana Purchase was one of the first few steps that led to the gradual expansion westward.
* One of the stepping stones in the US's imperialist expansion and one of the exemplified works of the Manifest Destiny.
3) Civil War & Reconstruction.
The Civil War essentially changed many of what was believed before the American Civil War and after it. For one, state rights were not prioritized above the Federal Government, and the Federal Government became much more powerful. Slavery was also outlawed nationally, and racism more in line with today's definition became more rampant. Blacks who used to be slaves were freed, but in many cases still did not have access to their new found rights. In many cases, white northerners simply rejected the ideology of slavery, and both northern and southern whites typically saw themselves as more superior than other races. They also thought of minorities as trying to take the "white's way of life", and became extremely racist not only in public, but also privately. The Reconstruction Era, therefore, is almost unanimously seen as a failure, and White Northern Abolitionists gave up on it in 1877.
Learn more about US history from the Revolutionary War to World War I, here:
https://brainly.com/question/1466912 - Difference between the French and Indian War and the US Revolutionary War.
https://brainly.com/question/18579912 - George Washington's legacy and presidency.
https://brainly.com/question/16881696 - Louisiana Purchase.
https://brainly.com/question/18439776 - Manifest Destiny.
https://brainly.com/question/769992 - The American Civil War.
https://brainly.com/question/2827989 - Spanish American War.
https://brainly.com/question/13883053 - United States and her policy of imperialism.
https://brainly.com/question/24405555 - Reconstruction Era.
