1792 Serious efforts were made to extend the Patowmack Canal to link up with Georgetown, and Washington pressed hard to build a stone bridge across
Category: As the Twig is Bent
5.7 Washington as City-Builder: the Federal City 1790-91
Early Republic MED Context and Strategies The Formative Years of the Early Republic (1790-1870) Population Migration, City-Building, Cultural Diffusion: the Early Republic Big City Paradigm
5.3 Hamilton Launches His Economic System: the Public Credit and Residency Acts
Module 2 Hamilton Launches His Economic System: Cracks Appear in the Federalist Tribe Consensus (First) Report on Public Credit Everybody knows Hamilton created the National
5.2 Federalists Commence Nation-Building and Jefferson Resists: (A1) Jefferson’s Innovation Strategy: the Patent Law of 1790
Module Segue Way into and Overview/summary of this module’s perspective and overriding argument This module resumes the tale started way back in our second module,
5.1 Federalists and Washington Adams Administrations–Intro
Said and Done: Chapter 3 attempts to contextualize (I hate that word) the role and activities of the federal government in a bottoms-up approach to
1.1 Pennsylvania Migrations and Culture
In this chapter we will introduce and start our discussion on migrations, the distinction among American political cultures, and the diffusion of these cultures in