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Chapter 7 of the course text characterizes the opening years of the newly formed United States of America as “a period of trial and transition” (253). Identify and explain four distinct specific political, economic, and/or social tensions that occurred in the early years of the United States that contribute to the characterization of this period of trial and transition. For each tension, be clear in distinguishing the tension from the other three, in explaining specifically what occurred in the early years of the United States as a nation that demonstrated the tension, and in explaining clearly how the tension constituted a trial and/or a transition for the newly formed nation.

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Describe the major characteristics of the foreign policy of the United States upon its formation in the late 1700s. Indicate four distinct features of early United States foreign policy, with explanation for each feature of what ideas produced the feature of United States foreign policy and what particular actions taken (or not taken) by the early United States government reflected the feature of foreign policy.