NCHE

1. NCHE By Breena Darcy

2. Task Your task is to help the NCHE decide the order of importance of the events. Louisiana Purchase, The War of 1812, American Industrialized Revolution, and the Monroe Doctrine. To complete this task you will create a proposal in which you rank these events. 

3. Ordering

4. Order • Louisiana Purchase • War of 1812 • Monroe Doctrine • American Industrialized Revolution

5. What Were They A description of each individual event

6. Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles of France's claim to the territory of Louisiana. The U.S. paid 50 million francs plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs, for a total sum of 15 million dollars (less than 3 cents per acre) for the Louisiana territory.

7. War of 1812 The War of 1812 was a 32-month military conflict between the United States and the British Empire and their Indian allies which resulted in no territorial change between the British and the US, but a resolution of many issues which remained from the American War of Independence. The president during the War of 1812 was James Madison. The United States declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by Britain's continuing war with France. Another being that when the United States sent trade ships out they were intercepted by other countries for supplies and money. The war was fought in three principal places. Firstly, at sea, warships and privateers of both sides attacked each other's merchant ships, while the British blockaded the Atlantic coast of the U.S. and assigned large-scale raids in the later times of the war. Soon after, both land and naval battles were fought on the American–Canadian frontier, which ran along the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence River and the northern end of Lake Champlain. Both sides invaded each other's territory, but these invasions were unsuccessful or temporary. The British victory at the Battle of Bladensburg in August 1814 allowed them to capture and burn Washington, D.C. Later during which Dolly Madison removed several valuables from the White House. One certain painting of George Washington was cut out of the frame and taken out of the fire by a servant of James Madison. At the end of the war there was a peaceful relationship between the United States and Britain.

8. Monroe Doctrine The Monroe Doctrine is a policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823. It states that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention. At the same time, the Doctrine noted that the United States would not interfere with existing European colonies. The Doctrine was issued at a time when nearly all Latin American colonies of Spain and Portugal had achieved independence from the Spanish Empire (except Cuba and Puerto Rico) and the Portuguese Empire. The United States, working in agreement with Britain, wanted to guarantee no European power would move in. Its primary objective was to free the newly independent colonies of Latin America from European intervention and avoid situations which could make the New World a battleground for the powers of the older countries.

9. American Industrialized Revolution The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes that occurred in the period from about 1760 to some time between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power and development of machine tools. The transition also included the change from wood and other bio-fuels to coal. The United States started the industrialized revolution after Europe and Western Europe.

10. Reasons The reasons behind my ranking of events

11. Louisiana Purchase The reason I chose the Louisiana Purchase as the most important is because it is the purchase of almost half of the current United States. The expansion brought along with it social, political, and economical change. Leading this country to higher standards, and making us a newer country, better equipped to rise into higher power. We were no longer the new, weak, unstable, and unsafe country. We were now the new, high standing country, with pride bigger than us.

12. War of 1812 The reason I chose the War of 1812 second is, because we were fighting to keep our newly found freedom. We did not want the other counties to steal our goods like they had done with our land. It was ours and not theirs. They were taking more than they needed leaving us with little to survive on, breaking down our country. The winning of this war gave us a confidence boost to move forward with our newly built country.

13. Monroe Doctrine The reason I chose the Monroe Doctrine third is, because it gave us control over ourselves. It kept our land protected from outside countries. With the Monroe Doctrine we could contain, control, and have power over ALL our land, new and old. Other countries could not take, or colonize on our country. The only reason I believe the Monroe Doctrine is not the most important is, because it didn’t gain any land it only kept the current land safe.

14. American Industrialized Revolution The main reason why I chose this last, was that it only was a mere upgrade in this country, it didn’t give us more land, nor did it give us more power. It was in inside upgrade not an outer upgrade. It happened within our own walls.

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