The Criticial Period of American History, 1783-1789

Houghton, Mifflin, 1898 - Počet stran: 395

CHAPTER I	1

Obstacles in the way of a treaty of peace	8

Effects of Rodneys victory	14

The Spanish treaty	20

The Newfoundland fisheries	21

Secret article relating to the Yazoo boundary	31

Coalition of Fox with North	36

Until at length he succumbs to the coalition which presently	43

Conduct of the neighbouring states	198

Creation of a national domain beyond the Alleghanies	204

Magnanimity of Virginia	209

Theory of folkland upon which the ordinance was based	224

Gardoqui and Jay	225

His farsighted genius and selfdevotion	229

Sudden changes in popular sentiment	238

Character of James Madison 244	244

CHAPTER II	50

The next five years were the most critical years in American his	56

False historic analogies	60

Conservative character of the American Revolution	66

Presbyterians and Congregationalists	78

But while the state governments in all these changes are seen	90

But failed to create a federal government endowed with real	96

Military weakness of the government	104

The Connecticut compromise according to which the national	112

Greenes experience in South Carolina	113

Congress finds itself unable to carry out the provisions of	125

It was especially severe in New York	130

Persecution of the loyalists	135

Congress unable to enforce payment of debts to British creditors	137

Restrictions upon suffrage	146

The quarrel between New York and New Hampshire over	157

The Barbary pirates	166

Cost of the war in money	167

Distress in New England	182

Ragmoney defeated in Massachusetts the Shays insurrec	192

CHAPTER VI	249

And was felt to be revolutionary in its character 256258	256

Question as to the representation of states brings out the antag	262

But is at length adopted	272

Debates as to the federal executive	297

The Federal Congress might compel the attendance of members	299

The convention foresaw imaginary dangers but not the real ones	306

In the British government the executive department is not sepa	312

Franklin lays the Constitution before the legislature of Pennsyl	327

First American parties Federalists and Antifederalists	332

Feeling of distrust in the mountain districts	346

Emphatic and unmistakable condemnation of paper money by	361

Origin of the Federalist 364	364

Washingtons journey to New York April 1623	373

PRESIDENTS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS	386

Meeting of mechanics at the Green Dragon	389

If they could have foreseen some recent judgments of the	390

American citizens kidnapped and sold into slavery	393

Autorská práva

Název	The Criticial Period of American History, 1783-1789
Autor	John Fiske
Vydavatel	Houghton, Mifflin, 1898
Zdroj originálu:	Michiganská státní univerzita
Digitalizováno	2. leden 2014
Délka	Počet stran: 395

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