Daniel Shays, a former army man, was hit hard by the new taxation policy in Massachusetts. When his personal situation worsened, he joined the protesters in Springfield and thus began the famous Shays’ rebellion. […]
The American Revolution had disastrous consequences for the farmers of New England. Since the farmers did not deal with money in their exchanges, they were not prepared for the ramifications of the new taxation policy. […]
Thomas Jefferson, though not interested in politics and commerce, did become active in American politics. However, he betrayed the Enlightenment principles he respected. […]
Young Thomas Jefferson was heavily influenced by the writings of the Enlightenment thinkers. These writings continued to be part of his favorite reading lists even in the later days of his life. […]
Thomas Jefferson went to the College of William & Mary where the curriculum was based on the textbooks written by somber Church of England divines. […]
The United States may not have been a Christian republic at its start, but it soon became one. Instead of republicanism absorbing religion, religion co-opted and absorbed the energies of republicanism between 1780 and 1860. […]
The American Revolution gave people like Jefferson and Madison an opportunity to disrupt the spread of traditional Christianity in America. Later, Thomas Paine’s Deism arose as a sensational alternative to traditional Christianity. […]
Although the British North Americans colonies were settled by religious communities, Christianity did not have a stronghold in early America. The influence of Republicanism and Enlightenment also left little room for Christianity in the lives of the people of America. […]
There would have been very little point in the Republicans’ efforts to protect domestic manufacturing, build up the national credit system, and move American agriculture onto the markets of the world, unless there was a workable system of national transportation to get it there, and that simply wasn’t available in America in 1816. […]
In 1816, President James Madison proposed a series of new initiatives to the 14th Congress. These included revival of the Bank of America and developing a larger and greater road, rail, and canal network. […]
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