How did America get so rich and powerful?

Question

When America became indepentint it was in debt. Hamilton's plan changed that, but it did not make us rich and powerful.

Answer 1

America was populated by hard working, industrious, ingenious, and inventive people who rolled up their sleeves and did it themselves. After the Revolutionary War, we were free to buy and sell to other countries and the Atlantic became crowded with merchant shipping to and from America. When the Industrial Revolution happened, millions of refugees and immigrants did the work. Importing and exporting grew as American businesses grew. It wasn't long before America outproduced nearly all of Europe combined. We made more and better products. We earned our way to the top.
Now, thanks to liberals, their environmentalists, their degeneration of America, and robots, that has all but gone away. Labor unions are pricing themselves out of business. Illegal immigrants are taking the jobs they are laid off or locked out of. Young Americans won't take the menial jobs they need to start out with. Everybody thinks the govt. owes them something.
This is still the greatest country in the modern world and not everybody likes us for that. The liberals hate their country and are trying everything they can think of to undermine it from within. The world has the United Nations trying to take it over so only the very rich and powerful can be more rich and all-powerful with helpless, hapless unarmed citizens unable to stop them. America can rebound, but we can't let anti-American liberals run the country because they won't allow us to recover.

Answer 2

Freedom and respect for property rights. Smart businessman. Good goverment(until George Bush). People from over the ocean were happy to come to America and wanted to live in a good country. They built a strong government and became rich. They knew their stuff and did not want to be poor again. Take Alexander Hamilton for example. He was a poor 13 year old from the Carribean and wanted a better life. George Washington helped him become succesful. He married the daughter of one of the most rich and powerful familys in the United States at the time. He and Thomas Jefferson decided the place for what is now the nations capitol in Patomics Creek. They moved the capitol farther south so the Southerners would help pay off our countrys debt. We have a strong nation because of what our forefathers did. When our country was being born.

Answer 3

Low population + vast resources = stustainable growth over the four hundred + years of settlement and development. America grew rich from a combination of it's own resources and technological development spurred by independent creative thinkers throught the early 20th century and later by government contracts. Power is usually coupled with wealth in most human societies, so these are pretty much the same question. If you look at the same period and contrast it with Australia, the difference in available resources is the big difference.

Answer 4

First of all the United States had vast untapped natural resources that it was able to mobilize during the early days of the industrial revolution. Supporting this was the fact that property owners in many parts of the United States exploited the essentially free labor of slaves. Most importanly, though, World War I and World War II devastated the economies of Europe which, until then had been large. Much wealth was lost and what wasn't lost was moved to the United States which suffered relatively little loss of capital and was able to more completely control the post war economy of the second half of the 20th century while more highly populated countries such as India and China were still industrializing.

Answer 5

Rich in natural resources. Also being an "island nation" far from other world powers in the 18th and 19th century allowed us to have little competition and relatively few wars. The big winners in the resource lottery were the Louisiana Purchase, the Mexican/American war, and the Spanish american war. The mineral and timber resources of the west were taken from native peoples with little problem giving the country vast ares with little population, fresh water, gold, silver, oil. great farming areas, lumber and ports on both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Answer 6

Because unlike Socialism, which forces the hardest workers and over achievers to have to share their reward with all the dead weight-and in effect encourage everyone to become minimalist underachievers, Capitalism rewards hard work!
We have a reason to try harder!-At least we used to!?

Enter, Ninny Peloser and the Democratic Socialist Party!
Exit, the American Dream!

Answer 7

America accumulated much of its wealth in the first century of being an independent country. This is in large part due to the free labor from slavery. A great way to make a lot of money is to not have to pay those doing most of the work.

Answer 8

Some japanese guys in torpedo planes led by a real gambler of an Admiral (Yamamoto) who knew victory was a long shot. Then slowly destiny became revealed. So don't blame us, blame Tojo and his war party.

Answer 9

Rich foreigners.

Answer 10

America became so rich and powerful because of third-world countries selling their items and stores selling them for more money than they bought them and the government get taxes from us to pay to illegal aliens(border crossers).