Use this Discovering American History video entitled The Agrarian Republic 1790 to 1824 to study the growth of a mostly agrarian United States in terms of a developing economy, territorial expansion, and reassertion of national unity in the War of 1812. Learn how the slavery issue reasserted itself as a crucial divisive issue in American politics, but conflict was temporarily averted with the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Learn about The Agrarian Republic 1790-1824.