The Era Without a Name
<p>The most fitting name that I’ve come up with for this period is the Era of the New Nation. That phrase reminds us of all that was at stake, all to be determined, all that would forever shape the history that followed. The Constitution was a set of instructions for a nation to come; the first three generations of the 19th century saw those plans grow into a nation, even as the path forged then diverged from the founders’ highest hopes and expectations. As it expanded, the emerging United States unleashed a <a href="https://dsl.richmond.edu/panorama/forcedmigration/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">system of racial slavery</a> across an expanse larger than the combined territories of the major countries of Europe. State and federal governments seized millions of acres from <a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/34e0e42dc461499f85b369b43f9e44f6" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Indigenous peoples</a> through fraud and violence, and millions more from the Republic of Mexico in an unprovoked war.</p>
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