United State's Come About

While reading the United States timeline, I learned the order of which many famous events occurred, and how the US grew as a nation. The US grew as a nation through countless numbers of compromises. Slavery, the forming of the new constitution, amendments, buying land, wars, and many other components went into these compromises, which helped shape the country today. These were not always easy compromises, and brought many great challenges to the country. One of the greatest challenges in the pre-Civil War era was slavery. There were many debates on which states should have slaves, and if these slaves should be included in the population count. Each time a new state was bought and joined the country the leaders had to decide if it would be slave free or not.  Another challenge includes the constitution and how it was made. The country first started out using the Articles of Confederation, but at once realized that it would not work, for it didn't have near as much power to raise revenues and enforce any policies. The constitutional convention was then held where they completely changed the government system so that everything was more fair, more laws could be passed, and there would be more power and money involved. Because of these compromises, the nation would stay united, until Abraham Lincoln became president, being one of the reasons of the Civil War.