The New Nation · The Americans

The Americans

The peoples of the young United States — the English majority, European immigrants, African Americans, women and the Native nations — in the first decades of the republic.

Who Lived in the Republic

The People of the New Nation

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Overview

Introduction

Who the people of the young United States were — and the diversity already taking shape.

peoples

Peoples

English Americans

The English-descended majority and the culture they carried into the new republic.

European Immigrants

Immigration

European Immigrants

The Germans, Scots-Irish and other newcomers who streamed into the new nation.

African Americans

Peoples

African Americans

Enslaved and free Black Americans in the decades after independence.

Women

Society

Women

The lives, work and limited rights of women in the early republic.

Religion

Faith

Religion

Churches, revivals and religious liberty in the new nation.

The First Americans

Native America

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Overview

Native American Overview

The Indian nations of North America as the United States pressed westward.

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Conflict

Resistance to Settlement

Native nations’ armed and diplomatic resistance to American expansion.

Assimilation & Removal

Policy

Assimilation & Removal

The early policies of assimilation and removal that pushed Native peoples aside.

Impact of American Expansion

Impact

Impact of American Expansion

How the relentless growth of the United States transformed Native America.

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