The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789

Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 - United States - 395 pages

CHAPTER I	1

It weakened the Whig party in England	12

The Spanish treaty	20

John Adams arrives in Paris and joins with Jay in insisting	23

Secret article relating to the Yazoo boundary	34

And this although apparently a triumph for the king	35

Persecution of the loyalists	43

Departure of the British troops	51

Claims of New York	209

And the several states began to make commercial war upon	214

Sudden changes in popular sentiment	221

The Virginia plan of which Madison was the chief author	236

How it was at first received	242

The Connecticut compromise according to which the	250

Objections of Rawlins Lowndes answered by Cotesworth	258

George Mason calls the slavetrade an infernal traffic	263

European statesmen whether hostile or friendly had little	58

Circumstances which obscured the true aspect of the case	59

Conservative character of the American Revolution	64

CHAPTER III	90

Congress being unable to pay the army was afraid of	106

Congress driven from Philadelphia by mutinous soldiers	112

It was especially severe in New York	113

Shipbuilding in New England	137

The quarrel between New York and New Hampshire over	151

The Barbary pirates	158

Various federal powers	162

British navigation acts and orders in council directed against	172

measures	174

Ragmoney defeated in Massachusetts the Shays insurrec	182

Creation of a national domain beyond the Alleghanies	189

193	195

Names of the proposed ten states	197

Spain hearing of the secret article in the treaty of 1783	208

Attempts of New York to oppress New Jersey and Con	264

Use of federal troops in suppressing insurrections	269

tive to the legislature	278

The convention foresaw imaginary dangers but not the real	286

The federal judiciary and its remarkable character 300301	300

CHAPTER VII	306

Pennsylvania and New Jersey	314

And overhauls the Constitution clause by clause	320

Attitude of Samuel Adams	326

South Carolina ratifies the Constitution	333

Virginias claims	335

New Hampshire had ratified four days before	339

Mr Gladstones opinion of the work of the convention	347

139 140	361

292294	363

Why the proceedings of the convention were kept secret	366

148150	368

Copyright

Title	The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789 Volume 22171 of Harvard social history/business preservation microfilm project Volume 12 of Historical writings of John Fiske
Author	John Fiske
Publisher	Houghton, Mifflin, 1888
Original from	Harvard University
Digitized	3 Oct 2007
Length	395 pages

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