Poll: Which was the Most Glorious Era in U.S. History?

[Galileo Galilei]

Poll: Which was the Most Glorious Age in U.S. History?

Pre-Columbian era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_era

Federalist Era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Era

First Party System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Party_System

Virginia Dynasty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_dynasty

Era of Good Feelings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_of_Good_Feelings

Jacksonian democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacksonian_democracy

Second Party System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Party_System

Antebellum Age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antebellum_Age

Reconstruction era of the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era_of_the_United_States

Third Party System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Party_System

Gilded Age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilded_Age

Gay Nineties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nineties

Progressive Era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Era

Fourth Party System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Party_System

Roaring Twenties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties

Fifth Party System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Party_System

Bush-Clinton era
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush-Clinton_era

Other

 

[Epic]

Gay 90s wooohooooo

btw, i found this in the Bush-Clinton era page:

all three presidents promoted deregulation, globalization, outsourcing, free trade, support for big business, and tax cuts for the wealthy (except for Bush Sr.'s tax raise in 1990), all of which helped cause several economic bubles during this time, most notably the dot-com bubble (1993-2000) and the housing bubble (2003-2007).

Biased, much?

In reality, wealth isn't taxed, earnings are. Overall taxes on high earners went up. Deregulation was limited to several instances - regulation was the rule of the day. Outsourcing is good for a society since it promotes specialization. Bubbles were caused by monetary policy and in the latest case, Fannie and Freddie and the government-created financial system.

 

[t0rnado]

Glory could mean a lot of things. Wars are glorious, empires are glorious, etc.

 

[Galileo Galilei]

Glory could mean a lot of things. Wars are glorious, empires are glorious, etc.

This is a poll.

YOU DECIDE.

 

[youngbuck]

I didn't look through any of the wiki pages, but I decided to select Jacksonian democracy. He killed the banks!

 

[Galileo Galilei]

Gay 90s wooohooooo

btw, i found this in the Bush-Clinton era page:



Biased, much?

In reality, wealth isn't taxed, earnings are. Overall taxes on high earners went up. Deregulation was limited to several instances - regulation was the rule of the day. Outsourcing is good for a society since it promotes specialization. Bubbles were caused by monetary policy and in the latest case, Fannie and Freddie and the government-created financial system.

Good find. I seached wikipedia, and did not find many "eras" named after presidents. It is humorous just in the fact that Bush/Clintion have one.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I picked the Federalist era because that most closely correlates with the Age of Enlightenment and some of the best American thinking was done then in all areas.

 

[Galileo Galilei]

I voted for the Virginia Dynasty and the Era of Good feelings. These three presidents, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe, under the most difficult conditions, followed the Constitution as close as was humanly possible.

 

[Gordon LeCompte Bolmer]

On the regrettable omission of 285 years...

Between your "Pre-Columbian Era" (prehistory through 1492-1504) and "Federalist Era" (1789-1801), would lie both the Colonial Era ("History of the Thirteen Colonies") and the Revolutionary War Era (1763-1789). The "History of the Thirteen Colonies," in particular, is lengthy, occupying the better part of two centuries. And as for the Revolutionary War Era...well, it was seminal, needless to say. Yet these Eras are not to be found on your list.

As an aficionado of both of the omitted Eras, I must reject your historical categorizations, and thus participation in your poll.

 

[nate895]

Other-Early Puritanical New England was the best.

 

[jmdrake]

The Ron Paul / Rand Paul era. (2012 - ?)

 

[jkr]

somehow or another...i hope it is RIGHT NOW!

HR1207 HOOORAWWW!


somehow i just know it is all GOING to be awwwight!

and it is my 1 year anniversary in a couple hours.

 

[krazy kaju]

You make a HUGE couple hundred year skip there between "Pre-Columbian" and "Federalist." I would say early colonial - see Anarchist Pennsylvania as an example.

 

[Fozz]

Jacksonian Democracy, Gilded Age, Roaring 20s.

 

[YumYum]

Jacksonian Democracy, Gilded Age, Roaring 20s.

Jackson left office and left us the Panic of 1837. The Gilded Age had immigrant women and children giving sexual favors to keep their jobs, and the boom in the 1920's was due to the Fed lowering interest rates and causing a stock bubble.
You think these periods were glorious?

 

[ChaosControl]

Antebellum.
Basically the US until the war that permanently altered the nation for the worse.

More than one of the options are within that time frame, I figure on picking the entire time frame.
Eras post then had seen a dramatic change with government becoming more centralized and moving away from an agrarian way of life to an urban industrial way of life. Both of which I think are for the worse. So I cannot pick an era after the war.

 

[Grimnir Wotansvolk]

Other: 1960's counterculture

 

[RM918]

Jackson left office and left us the Panic of 1837. The Gilded Age had immigrant women and children giving sexual favors to keep their jobs, and the boom in the 1920's was due to the Fed lowering interest rates and causing a stock bubble.
You think these periods were glorious?

I highly doubt there's any ages that didn't include prostitution.

As for the most glorious age in U.S. history, I would say it would be the end of U.S. history.

 

[Fozz]

Jackson left office and left us the Panic of 1837. The Gilded Age had immigrant women and children giving sexual favors to keep their jobs, and the boom in the 1920's was due to the Fed lowering interest rates and causing a stock bubble.
You think these periods were glorious?

Jackson abolished the National Bank and Van Buren created one of the best banking systems our country has ever had. The government was probably at its smallest in the 1840s, before the slave issue and Civil War led to much bigger government.

The Gilded age had some of the greatest economic growth and innovation in our country's history. The standard of living improved dramatically for average Americans.

The 1920s had Harding and Coolidge, the best presidents of the 20th century, who shrunk the government from the utter disaster of Woodrow Wilson, kept taxes low, kept the budget balanced, and led over a period of great prosperity. Sure, the Fed caused a bubble, but it would have become a regular recession if it weren't for Hoover and FDR's excessive intervention.

 

[tremendoustie]

Why is there nothing between Pre-Columbian and Federalist? It appears we're missing a lot of history.

If we're talking about the entire country, I'll go for the time in between the revolution and the constitution, but there were some bright sparks prior to that in certain areas (e.g. http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard81.html).