The United States of America in the nineteenth century is a relatively new country. With new found freedom from British rule, the citizens of America intent on exploring the vast wilderness and to seize the wealth of their hard-won country. The nineteenth century in America also marked by waves of wars, religious awakening, immigration, slavery, economic expansion as more states joined the union, and the industrial revolution. As people moved westward, the frontier mindset of rugged individualism replaced the community-oriented thinking that was once the American colonists. The culture of America changed to a heightened sense of individualism and self-interest, the image of self-made man developed along with the country’s rapid expansion.
