The Critical Period of American HistoryFiske, John
History
The Critical Period of American History
Fiske, John
United States -- History -- Confederation, 1783-1789
Aristides, pseudonym, 312.
Aristocracy, 283.
Aristotle, 225.
Arkwright, Sir Richard, 267.
Armada, the Invincible, 235.
Armstrong, John, 109, 150.
Army, dread of, 105, 321.
Arnold, Benedict, 28, 106, 151.
Asbury, Francis, 85.
Ashburton, Lord, 5.
Ashburton treaty, 26.
Assemblies, 65.
Assunpink Creek, 349.
Augustine, 158.
Backus, Rev. Isaac, 322.
Bagehot, Walter, 291.
Baldwin, Abraham, 251.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 213.
Baptists persecuted in Virginia, 80.
Barbary pirates, 157-161.
Barré, Isaac, 41.
Bedford, Gunning, 249.
Bennington, 321.
Bernard, Sir Francis, 298.
Biennial elections, 327.
Bill of rights demanded, 329.
Blackstone, Sir William, 290, 291, 297.
Bossuet on slavery, 72.
Boston Gazette, quoted, 328.
Boundaries of United States as settled by the treaty, 25.
Bowdoin, James, 143, 180-184, 319, 324.
Boyd, Lieutenant, 122.
Braddock, Edward, 305.
Bradshaw's Railway Guide, 171.
Brearley, David, 229, 246.
Bribery, charges of, 328.
British army departs, 51.
British Constitution compared with American, 290-298.
Buff and blue colours, 2.
Burgesses, House of, in Virginia, 65.
Burke, Ædanus, 116.
Burke, Edmund, his sympathy with the Americans, 2;
could not see the need for parliamentary reform, 6;
his invective against Shelburne, 17;
on the slave-trade, 72.
Butler, Pierce, 258.
Cabinet, the president's, 299.
Cabinet government, growth of, in England, 296.
Camden, Lord, 5.
Canada, Franklin suggests that it should be ceded to the United
States, 9, 14.
Carleton, Sir Guy, 50, 131.
Carlisle, Pa., disturbances at, 315.
Carpet-bag governments, 270.
Carr, Dabney, 92.
Carrington, Edward, 204, 307.
Carroll, Daniel, 228.
Carrying trade, 163, 263.
Cartwright, Edmund, 267.
Catalonian rebels indemnified, 29.
Catholics in the United States, 87.
Cato, pseudonym, 312.
Cavendish, Lord John, 5, 16.
Censors, council of, in Pennsylvania, 150.
Centinel, pseudonym, 313.
Cervantes, Miguel de, 159.
Charles II., 29.
Chase, Samuel, 322.
Chatham, Lord, 188.
Cherry Valley, 122.
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 213.
Chittenden, Thomas, 121.
Cincinnati, order of the, 114-118.
Cincinnati, the city, original name of, 197.
Cincinnatus, pseudonym, 312.
Clan system, 62.
Clergymen in the Massachusetts convention, 319;
their liberal spirit, 322.
Cleveland, Grover, his tariff message, 294.
Clinton, George, favours persecution of Tories, 123;
an enemy to closer union of the states, 145;
defeats impost amendment, 220;
opposes the Constitution, 340;
entertains President Washington at dinner, 350.
Clinton, Sir Henry, 322.
Clymer, George, 311.
Coalition ministry, 38-46.
Coeur-de-Lion and Saladin, 161.
Coinage, 165.
Coke, Thomas, 86.
Columbia College, 125.
Commerce, control of, given to Congress, 263.
Common law in the United States, 69.
Commons, House of, in England, 68, 290-298;
in North Carolina, 65.
Compromises of the Federal Constitution, 250-267.
Confederation, articles of, 92-98.
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