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The War Of The Revolutionary War

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With the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, the revolutionary war was over, and the United States began the arduous task of rebuilding an economy held back by colonialism and destroyed by war. From the 1780s up until the 1810s, the economy was slowly growing and diversifying, the War of 1812 halted much of those advanced. The war ruined the United States economy once again, but it allowed it to grow and develop to new heights and become stronger than before the war. After the revolutionary war, the United States began the arduous task of rebuilding the new economy. Through the genius of men like Alexander Hamilton, the American Economy was well on its way to becoming a fully independent economy instead of a mere colonial economy. The United States’ main trading partner after the war was the United Kingdom, just as it had been prior to the war. Americans did a lot of importing of goods as their economy was still trying to recover from the revolution. In 1784, the United States was importing good valued at around 2.75 million pounds sterling. For most of the 1780s and 90s, the United States was struggling to build their own industries for export. In 1785, the United States only exported around 5.8 million dollars’ worth of goods. Hamilton, as the secretary of the treasury, would help to fix this by instating a tariff on imports to allow for American goods to have a comparative advantage over their British rival. Along with tariff, war between Britain and France meant that

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