Carol Sue Humphrey

The Revolutionary Era

Primary Documents on Events from 1776 to 1800
Herausgeber: Copeland, David A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Yet after the British withdrew, a host of new challenges confronted the United States, including the Articles of Confederation, Shay's Rebellion, the Bill of the Rights, the Whiskey Rebellion, slavery, women's roles, the French Revolution, the XYZ Affair, the Sedition Act, and more. Again, the press not only purveyed the facts.

Produktdetails

• Debating Historical Issues in the Media of the Time
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780313320835
• ISBN-10: 0313320837
• Artikelnr.: 22455037

Autorenporträt

CAROL SUE HUMPHREY is Professor of History at Oklahoma Baptist University. She is the author of This Popular Engine: The Role of New England Newspapers During the American Revolution and The Press of the Young Republic, 1783-1833 (Greenwood, 1996).

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword
Introduction
Chronology of Events
Chapter 1: The Reality of Independence, 1776-1781
Chapter 2: Wartime Morale, 1776-1781
Chapter 3: The Battles of the Revolutionary War, 1776-1781
Chapter 4: General George Washington, 1776-1783
Chapter 5: Benedict Arnold, 1780-1781
Chapter 6: The Articles of Confederation, 1777-1781
Chapter 7: The Union in Crisis? 1782-1787
Chapter 8: Shays's Rebellion, 1786-1787
Chapter 9: Constitutional Convention, 1787
Chapter 10: Ratification Struggle, 1787-1789
Chapter 11: The Bill of Rights, 1787-1791
Chapter 12: The Issue of the Native Americans, 1791-1797
Chapter 13: The Role of Women, 1780-1798
Chapter 14: Slave Revolt in Santo Domingue (Haiti), 1791-1793
Chapter 15: President George Washington, 1789-1799
Chapter 16: The Early Years of the French Revolution, 1789-1793
Chapter 17: The Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
Chapter 18: Jay's Treaty, 1795-1796
Chapter 19: The Rise of the Party Press, 1797-1800
Chapter 20: The French Revolution Gone Crazy, 1793-1798
Chapter 21: American Neutrality, 1793
Chapter 22: The Election of 1796, September-November 1796
Chapter 23: The Quasi-War with France, 1797-1798
Chapter 24: The XYZ Affair, 1798
Chapter 25: The Sedition Act, 1798-1800
Chapter 26: The Election of 1800, February 1800-March 1801
Selected Bibliography
Index