A major period during American history that I will look at is the time when Old City Philadelphia was being built. This was during the seventeen and eighteen hundreds. At a time when this wonderful country was in its infancy we needed to show the world that we are a new, rich, and powerful country. To me the ideas and architecture of the buildings in Old City reflected what America was about. Philadelphia set out to show the country that we were a strong nation that was not going to fail.
The First and Second Bank of the United States showed this to the country. …
