After the United States won its goal of independence, Americans soon discovered the intense struggle to develop the area and its people into a united country. These struggling developments, which had overall outcomes of more failures than successes, brought about a sense of doubt and uncertainty in John Adams, a founding father who was actively involved in government. In the quotation "The Union is still to me an Object of as much Anxiety as ever …showed first 75 words of 1811 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1811 total…The economy had not been up to par for a long time, and there were more and more foreign struggles that affected the army and relations between countries. Political stability had not been known on the continent for a long time. Many Americans, such as Adams, found these reasons enough evidence to support the distressful feeling that America was lost, this feeling brought about much doubt and uncertainty on the future outlook of America's prosperity.