For Findley, the new Republican societies were a vehicle for political strategy. However, when French Revolution’s new minister plenipotentiary, Genet, became president of one of the Republican societies, it led to anti-Genet rallies organized against his involvement. […]
International troubles involving the British in the 1790s did not give George Washington the peace and detachment in foreign affairs that he craved. […]
Timothy Dwight believed there could be no national virtue without national religion. As president of Yale College, he preached and shared his thoughts with the students, leading to an outbreak of religious revival. […]
George Washington thought what formed and shaped virtue was religion. However, the federal constitution’s first amendment forbade the federal government from designating any denomination as a national church. […]
During the early Republic, the making and selling of whiskey was a major business. When Hamilton proposed to fund the national government’s debt by an excise tax on whiskey, it was met with anger and opposition. […]
The exact terms of Jay’s Treaty were not entirely well-known, and the delegation did not arrive in Philadelphia until March 7, 1795, which allowed Republicans to create a storm in America. […]
Slavery first had its legal underpinnings erased in Massachusetts, and by 1790, there were no slaves remaining in the state. Cases such as those of Mum Bett and Quok Walker encouraged the blacks. […]
George Washington thought Hector Crèvecoeur’s ‘Letters from an American Farmer’ contained “a great deal of profitable and amusive information, respecting the private life of the Americans”. […]
In America, widespread land ownership opened access to voting rights for unprecedented numbers of ordinary Americans. However, American women were still not eligible to vote, the solitary exception being New Jersey until 1807. […]
The French Republic’s appalled reaction to the Jay Treaty helped John Adams. Their reactions and responses made the American newspapers react in anti-French fury, while Adams became the hero of the hour. […]
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