Similarly, the Indians were seen only as sources of trade, and as useful allies during times of war with other Europeans. ... Butler proves that these characteristics of American culture and the American people have their origins in the late colonial era. ... While today's American economy is geared primarily towards the service sector and advanced manufacturing, the economy of the late colonial era centered on agriculture. ... Changes in the political realms of the late colonial era heralded the beginning of large-scale participatory politics "one of America's crowning achievem...

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And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought would aid men of established means while deepening inequalities among whites. Numerous events during and after the misnamed Era of Good Feelings "among them the neo-Federalist rulings of John Marshall's Supreme Court, the devastating effects of the panic of 1819, the launching of John Quincy Adams's and Henry Clay's American System "confirmed a growin...

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