The Emerging American Empire Republican Capitalist Development in the USA,

Emerging Empire Boom and Bust of American Industrial Capitalism: – Increasing GDP per-capita – Increasing territorial base Establishing a Bipartisan System The Triumph of American [sic] Republican Capitalism The Crisis of

Figure 1 U.S. Private Production Per-capita, Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, (D. C., 1949).

Table 1 Population, Private Production Value (in millions) and Production Value (in thousands) Per-capita in the U.S., YearPopulationProductPer-capitaYearPopulationProdPp-c 18005,308, ,155, ,239, ,947, ,638, ,994, ,866, ,972, ,069, ,710, ,191, ,775, ,443, ,669, ,558, Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the United States, (Washington D. C., 1949).

Figure 2 Source: Minnesota Population Center. National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota

Figure 3 State Electoral Votes in U.S. Presidential Election of 1796 Electoral Vote Political PartyPresidential Nom.#% FederalistJohn Adams Democratic-RepublicanThomas Jefferson Source:

Figure 4 Presidential Election 1800 Source: Electoral Vote Political PartyPresidential Nom.#% Democratic-RepublicanThomas Jefferson FederalistJohn Adams6547.1

Figure 5 Presidential Election 1824 Source:

Figure 6 Presidential Election of 1828 source:

Figure 7 Presidential Election of 1840 source:

Figure 8 Presidential Election 1848 Source:

Figure 9 Presidential Election 1860 Source: Minnesota Population Center. National Historical Geographic Information System: Version 2.0. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota election data: ICPSR 0001http://

Figure 10 Presidential Election 1876 source:

Figure 11 Presidential Election 1896 source:

Figure 12 Presidential Election 1932 source:

Summary and Conclusion – Economic growth: especially after 1900 – Economic crises: big one in 1929 – Political crises: party systems rise and fall Using NGHIS and ICPSR we can analyze these economic and political effects on whatever we wish to explain (e.g., terrorism) Or we can just look at the pictures (which are interesting)

Presidential Election of 2008 Political Party PresidentialVPE#E%Pop#Pop% Democratic Barack ObamaJoseph Biden ,456, RepublicanJohn McCainSarah Palin ,934,

Figure 11 Presidential Election 1896 source:

Online Sources for Election Maps n.php?year= n.php?year= Both of these are readily accessible and easy to use, but they do contain some errors. Even the ICPSR data should be used with care Next year: or : for another partisan shift