HIST 103A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: National Republican Party, Cash Crop, Power Wheels
5 Apr 2018
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A group of politicians, who had started calling themselves the national republicans , dividing themselves as a smaller faction within the larger republican party. National republicans studied deficiencies in the american system that war had revealed. American reliance on foreign trade > exposure to international conflict. Trade was disrupted at the end of the war, so they suggested that the us developed more manufactured goods in order to reduce dependence on foreign imports. Dissolution of the bank of the u. s > difficult to raise funds for war without banks and banks without credit. Poor infrastructure of the young republic > difficult to move troops around the country, except for in coastal waters. If there was a powerful navy blockading the country, it is difficult to have communication between different cities and states. Henry clay (ky), john quincy adams (ma), president james madison, National republicans created specific policies intended to work together to make a new.
