Ratification of the Constitution

The Administrations of George Washington

And John Adams

ASSIGNMENTS

Henretta: Chapter Seven:

A.  Reviewing the Text: Three            . 

• Gates Notes

• Study Guide

Primary Source Documents

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• 1774 - 1789: Documents from the Continental Congress and the  Constitutional Convention.

• 1787:  Records of the Federal Convention of 1787

• 1787:  Benj. Franklin Speech before Constitutional Convention.

• 1787:  Elbridge Gerry:  Reasons for not Signing the Federal Constitution.

• 1787:   Madison's Notes on the Constitutional Debate.

• 1787:  The Federalist Papers (In Entirety)

• 1787:  Federalist #10 (Madison)

• 1787:  Federalist #21, On Weaknesses of Articles of Confederation (Hamilton)

• 1787:  The Anti-Federalist Papers.

• 1788:  All Men are born Free and Equal:  Massachusetts Yeoman oppose the "Aristocratickal" Constitution.

• 1788:  Patrick Henry Speech in Opposition to Ratification of the Constitution.

• 1788:  Francis Corbin Answering Patrick Henry.

• 1789:  Broadside: An Act to Establish the Seat of Government of the United States.

• 1789:  Judiciary Act of 1789

• 1789:  Proposed Constitutional Amendments on Freedom of Religion.

• 1789:  Thomas Tucker to George Tucker on the Dangers of the New Constitution.

• 1789:  George Washington:  First Inaugural Address.

• 1789:  An Act to Establish the Seat of Government of the U.S.

• 1790:  George Washington:  First State of the Union Address.

• 1790:  Judith Sargent Murray:  "On the Equality of the Sexes."

• 1791:  Alexander Hamilton on the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States.

• 1792:  Letter from Alexander Hamilton to George Washington re: the Bank Controversy.

• 1793:  Proclamation of Neutrality.

• 1793:  George Washington:  Second Inaugural Address.

• 1794:  Jefferson to Madison on the Whiskey Rebellion.

• 1794:  The Whiskey Rebellion:  Proclamation by George Washington.

• 1794:  The Jay Treaty:  Complete Website.

• 1795:  Treaty of Greenville with the several Indian Tribes.

• 1797:  John Adams:  First Inaugural Address.

• 1797:  Cartoon:  Refusing the Paris Monster.

• 1797:   John Adams:  Speech on the XYZ Affair.

• 1797:  White Slaveowners Fear that the Haitian Revolution has arrived in Charleston, South Carolina.

• 1798:  The Alien Act.

• 1798:  The Alien and Sedition Acts.

• 1798 - The Sedition Act of 1798.

• 1798:  Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor.

• 1798:  The Virginia Resolution.

• 1799:  The Kentucky Resolution

• 1798:  Washington's Farewell Address.

• 1799:  Petition of the People of Color, Freedmen of the City of Philadelphia.

• 1804:  The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Web Links

• MAP -- Vote to Ratify the Constitution.

• Map -- The Northern Frontier; 1783 - 1812.

• Map -- Northern Frontier in the War of 1812.

• Map -- Southern Frontier in the War of 1812.

• Map -- Chesapeake Bay Area: 1812 - 1814.

• ConstitutionFacts.com

• Debates to Ratify the Constitution in the Several States

• Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism

• George Washington POTUS Site

• John Adams POTUS Site

• The Papers of George Washington.

• The Papers of John Adams

• University of San Diego - Notes on The Federalist Era

• Amendments to the Constitution that were never Ratified.

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