By Sarah J. Purcell
This quantity within the acclaimed Eyewitness historical past sequence covers the interval 1783 to 1828, deciding upon up after the belief of the yankee Revolution and carrying on with as much as the years whilst the US was once increasing westward. It incorporates a ancient narrative that offers an summary of the interval, a chronology, and thousands of eyewitness stories from those who witness or lived in the course of the political occasions, social alterations, pop culture, and fiscal adjustments during this vital interval. It additionally offers with fresh insights in regards to the value of race and women's heritage within the new country. Eyewitness testimony from political leaders, inventors, social commentators, ladies, African american citizens, Indians, and so forth are incorporated, and one of several army occasions coated are the Quasi-War with France, the Tripolitan Wars, Indian combating, the Seminole Wars, and the conflict of 1812. fabric on Canada is incorporated, because the fates of Canada and the U.S. have been heavily associated within the interval, and the relationship in made specifically transparent within the bankruptcy at the conflict of 1812, which happened in either international locations Simultaneously.
To stimulate curiosity in scholars and supply the main entire account of the interval, this booklet additionally contains files, pill biographies of key figures, a bibliography, an index, and greater than eighty black-and-white photos.
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Those brave men who were for the war and who have been fighting from four to eight years in defense of their Country and for the preservation of its liberty, are now discharged the service, and are retiring from the field of Glory with Joy in their counte- We are now to rank among the nations of the world, but whether our independence shall prove a blessing or a curse, must depend on our own wisdom or folly, virtue or wickedness; judging the future by the past, the prospect is not promising. Justice and virtue are the vital principles of republican government; but among us a depravity of manners and morals prevails to the destruction of all confidence between man and man.
This sedition threw the state into a convulsion which lasted about a year; courts of justice were violently obstructed; the collection of debts was suspended; and a body of armed troops, under the command of General Lincoln, was employed, during the winter of 1786, to disperse the insurgents. Jedidiah Morse, remembering the disorder during Shays’s Rebellion in 1786 , in his American Geography, in Craven, Johnson, and Dunn, Documentary History, 176. The business of education has acquired a new complexion by the independence of our country.
Stephen Mix Mitchell, Connecticut legislator, letter to William Samuel Johnson, November 13, 1785, in Beardsley, Life of William Samuel Johnson, 121. A decline or rather an extinction of public credit; a relaxation and corruption of manners, and a free use of foreign luxuries; a decay of trade and manufactures, with a prevailing scarcity of money; and, above all, individuals involved in debt to each other—these were the real, though more remote causes of the insurrection. It was the tax which people were required to pay, that caused them to feel the evils that have been enumerated—this called forth all their other grievances; and the first act of violence committed, was the burning or destroying of a tax bill.
