The war has renewed and reinstated the national feelings and character which the Revolution had given, and which were daily less
ened. The people … are more Americans; they feel and act more as a nation, and I hope that the permanency of the Union is thereby better secured. –Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, 1816
According to this quote and what you learned in this lesson, what was an effect of the War of 1812?
The given quote by Treasury Albert reflects a revised sense of American nationalism that was fading after the Declaration of Independence in the previous decade. America and Britain had a strained relationship since then and were continuously fighting for the dominance of the continent.
The war of 1812 impacted a great loss on the side of America including economic fallout, deaths, burning of Capitol and many other public buildings. However, America could resist the colonizers at Atlantic coast and eventually signing of a peace treaty.
America was united for the first time against a foreign power as both the Republicans and Federalists joined to defend national interests gaining International respect.
There were long seeded differences between the United States and the Soviet Union over ideologies. In the Russian Revolution of 1917 the communists took power. The United States and Britain were worried that the same thing might happen in their countries.
The axis powers attacked countries in eastern and western Europe, occupying much of Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Ocean islands, bringing misery to the conquered peoples. The war ended in 1945, with the defeat of the Axis and the dissolution of the alliance.
