After the defeat of British colonists against the American and French
             forces in the American Revolution, which ended in 1781, Americans began
             rebuilding their nation by developing stable economic and political
             institutions. This paper will discuss economic and political developments
             that paved the way for the Americas or United States become a prosperous
             and powerful nation not only in the Western bloc, but in the whole world as
             Upon establishing their own government right after the American
             Revolution, Americans began rehabilitating their economy, by spurring
             agriculture, the main source of income of most Americans during that
             period. What paved the way for agriculture to proliferate and flourish in
             the country is through the invention of the cotton gin in the 1790s,
             invented by Eli Whitney. Through the cotton gin, it became possible for
             cotton farmers to separate raw cotton fibers from seeds and other foreign
             materials in it. Cotton farming became a lucrative market for Americans
             during the 1800s, establishing bug cotton plantations in the Northern and
             Southern regions of America. Furthermore, cotton gin farming became the
             catalyst for black slave trading and selling to emerge as a new form of
             Further developments in agriculture continued even after the War of
             1812, another conflict between the American and the British forces. After
             the war, agriculture flourished once again, and agriculture was no longer
             limited to cotton gins, but other lucrative agricultural form called "mixed
             agriculture," which included plants and animals as primary source of
             agricultural products and resources. Like the economic development during
             the 1800s, economic prosperity during the mid-1800s resulted to rampant
             support for black slavery and spurred migration, where European nationals
             transferred to the US to work as farmers, and eventually live as America
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