other significant methods of US "nation-building" between 1776-1800 besides westw.expansion & new constitution

Question

what were some other major events/procedures that the US took to their process of "nation-building" besides drafting the federally strong constittion after the articles of confederation, and the process that was westward expansion?

Answer 1

it was an easy sell in Europe it had faced 1400 years of going miles to get fire wood, they said that when the European came they burned for two hundred years to get over the feeling of being out of wood fuel for winters, propaganda at the great ship lines to come to the new world lied just like today