{"id":4257,"date":"2022-01-22T15:43:01","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T15:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/?page_id=4257"},"modified":"2023-09-14T01:49:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T01:49:39","slug":"jacksonian-diplomacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/course-syllabus\/jacksonian-diplomacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonian Diplomacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following the War of 1812, what was the key factor behind rising US strength in global affairs?<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Chapter 4: “Leave the Rest to Us”: The Assertive Republic, 1815-1837<\/h3>\n

“The War of 1812 gave a tremendous boost to nationalism.\u00a0 Americans entered the postwar era more optimistic than ever.\u00a0 Their faith in themselves and their nation’s destiny knew few bounds.\u00a0 Their boastful pride in their own institutions often annoyed visitors.\u00a0 ‘A foreigner will gladly agree to praise much in their country,’ the perceptive Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville complained, ‘but he would like to be allowed to criticize something and that he is absolutely refused.’ ‘I love national glory,’ one congressman exulted.\u00a0 American horizons broadened.\u00a0 Even the optimistic Jefferson could envision nothing more than a series of independent republics in North America.\u00a0 His successor as the architect of U.S. expansion, John Quincy Adams, foresaw a single nation stretching from Atlantic to Pacific.\u00a0 As secretary of state and president he worked tirelessly to realize this destiny.”<\/p>\n

–George C. Herring,\u00a0From Colony to Superpower:\u00a0 U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776<\/em> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 138.<\/p>\n

KEY TERMS & FIGURES:<\/strong>\u00a0 Monroe Doctrine (1823) \/\/ John Quincy Adams \/\/ Andrew Jackson \/\/ Henry Clay<\/p>\n