The Growing Republic: A Mass Democracy

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After you have completed this section, you will be able to:

  1. Theorize how Americans developed the world's first modern mass democracy, while forging a new national culture amid complex economic and political dynamics.
  2. Recognize, analyze, and evaluate the dynamics of historical continuity and change over periods of time of varying length.
  3. Contrast the identity developed by Americans with that of the monarchy-driven nations of Europe.
  4. Explain why social movements, such as transcendentalism, abolitionism, and the Second Great Awakening encouraged settlers to envision the United States as the realization of modern ideas, beliefs, and cultural statements.