The Early Years of the Republic

Benjamin Franklin

ASSIGNMENTS

Henretta: Chapter Seven

A. Reading Assessment Quiz- One or Two (Your Choice)

• Gates' Notes 
  Exchange of Letters: Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson

• The Articles of Confederation

  Primary Source Documents 

• Timeline:  Confederation to Constitution

• American Values in Historical Context:  (1789 - 1865) by Prof. William J. Gilmore-Lehne (An Excellent Resource)

• Comparison of Articles of Confederation with Constitution

• Chart Comparison of Articles of Confederation to Constitution. 

• 1777: The Articles of Confederation

• 1780's:  Olaudah Equiano Describes the Horrors of the Middle Passage.

• 1783:  Washington's Address Resigning his Commission

• 1783:  The Newburgh Conspiracy and Washington's Reply

• 1783:  Committee Report on Import Duties: Articles of Confederation Congress.

• 1783: Resolutions Concerning Foreign Commerce:  Articles of Confederation Congress.

• 1783:  William Manning, "A Laborer," Describes Shay's Rebellion.

• 1785:  Commissions Authorized to Form Treaties with Indian Tribes: Articles of Confederation Congress.

• 1785:  Anthony Benezet:  Short Observations on Slavery.

• 1786:  Annapolis Convention:  Commissioner's Report.  

• 1786:  Poems of Phyllis Wheatley 

• 1786:  Instructions to Superintendents of Indian Affairs:  Articles of Confederation Congress.  

• 1785:  Disposing of Lands in the Western Territory:  Articles of Confederation Congress.

• 1786:  The Grand Committee on the Subject of the Western Territory

• 1787:  The Northwest Ordinance

• 1787:  Memorial to the Congress of the United States. . . from the Freemen.

• 1787:  Quaker-Created Seal:  "Am I not a Man and a Brother?"

• 1787:   Draft Text of Constitution.

• 1787:  Letter of Transmittal of Constitution to Confederation Congress.

• 1788:  Andrew Falconbridge:  The Slave Trade and the Middle Passage.

• 1791:  Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker re: Talents of Black People.

• 1792:  Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson:  "We are all of the same Family."

• 1793:  Fugitive Slave Law

• 1794:  An Act Prohibiting the Slave Trade from the United States to any Foreign Place or Country.

• 1799:  Last Will and Testament of George Washington, providing for Manumission of Slaves upon death of his wife.

• Late 18th Century:  Phyllis Wheatley to Students of the University of Cambridge in New England (Harvard).

• Late 18th Century:  George Washington:  Rules of Civility and Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation. 

American Artists of the Early Republic               

•   John Trumbull:  Death of General Warren at Battle of Bunker Hill

•  John Trumbull:  Signing the Declaration of Independence

•  John Trumbull:  Surrender of General Burgoyne

•  John Trumbull:  Surrender of Cornwallis

• Charles Willson Peale:  Washington, Lafayette, and Tilghman at Yorktown

• Charles Willson Peale:  George Washington

• Charles Willson Peale:  Washington as a British Officer

Web Links

• Identifying Defects in the Confederation

• Sparknotes Commentary on the Articles of Confederation. (Membership required; but is FREE.)

• Shay's Rebellion and the Constitution

• Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism: 1619 - 1789.

• Continental Congress Broadside Collection.

• George Washington and Slavery.

• George Washington Picture Gallery

• Early Documents of the Republic: Search Engine.

• Essay:  Was the American Revolution a Revolution? (Sofya Medvdev)

• The Papers of George Washington

• American Literature:  Colonial Period to 1800.

• George Washington:  POTUS Site.

• Journals of the Continental Congress (34 Volumes)

• Young America:  Treasures from the Smithsonian Art Collection.

• Historical Maps of the United States

• The Making of America:  Digital Library of Primary Sources.

• Primary Sources of U.S. HIstory:  Detailed Index

• An American Time Capsule:  Three Centuries of Broadsides and other Printed Ephemera.

• Africans in America: Resource Bank Index

   

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