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Complete Idiot’s Guide to American HistoryJackson’s badly outnumbered troops suffered fewer than 100 casualties. Fanfare for the Common Man (1814-1836) In This Chapter President Monroe’s misnamed “Era of Good Feelings” The Monroe Doctrine Economic crisis: the Panic of 1819 The Missouri Compromise Jacksonian Democracy Casualties of the War of 1812 included many soldiers, settlers, and Indians. Casualties also included the U.S. economy, which declined sharply during the war, bottoming out in the Panic of 1819. Also slain in battle was the British desire to fight any more wars with its erstwhile colonies. No, Great Britain certainly didn’t lose the War of 1812, but it didn’t win it, either. Britain came away convinced that fighting the United States just wasn’t worth doing. A final casualty was the Federalist party. Federalists, all of whom bitterly questioned the wisdom of the war and some of whom even advocated dissolution of the union because of it, were seen as unpatriotic and lacking in resolve. In 1816, Democratic-Republican James Monroe, presented to the electorate as the heir apparent of James Madison, handily won election to the presidency ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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