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Authors: Gordon S. Wood
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (140 page)
and elective monarchy,
74
–75
and the Federalist Party,
54
–55,
72
–73,
276
and the First Congress,
55
–58
and freemasonry,
53
and the French Wars,
187
and Hamilton,
92
–93
and honor codes,
159
and international commerce,
630
and Jefferson,
154
–55
and Marshall,
438
and mercantilism,
633
and North-South tensions,
146
and partisan conflict,
269
,
271
and patriarchy,
345
and presidential protocols,
81
–82
and Shippen,
6
and taxation,
172
and war,
189
and Washington,
74
–85
monetary policy,
18
–19,
93
,
95
–103,
141
–42,
294
,
297
–98,
692
Monroe, James: and the Baltimore riots,
338
and black resettlement plans,
540
and Democratic-Republican Societies,
204
and diplomacy,
204
–5,
205
–6
and the 1800 election,
285
and the 1804 election,
313
and expansionism,
358
and the Floridas,
374
–75
and the French Revolution,
177
and honor codes,
236
–37
and international commerce,
640
and the Louisiana Purchase,
369
,
371
and Marshall,
435
and the Mazzei letter,
236
and military policy,
196
and national capital negotiations,
143
and newspapers,
258
and the Non-Importation Act,
644
–45
and patronage,
300
and political campaigning,
62
and slavery,
231
,
536
,
734
and social changes,
702
and state legislature,
269
and Taylor,
267
and territorial disputes,
113
and trade disputes,
666
,
670
and the War of 1812,
676
,
691
–92
Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, baron de,
8
,
159
,
401
,
407
,
708
Montgomery, Richard,
230
Moore, Thomas,
291
Moral Society of the County of Columbia,
488
Morris, Gouverneur: and class divisions,
316
and corporate charters,
465
and the federal judiciary,
419
–20
and Hamilton,
92
and Marshall,
425
and mass political engagement,
21
and perceptions of democracy,
718
and political parties,
307
and the three-fifths clause,
532
Morris, Robert: and Brackenridge,
221
and Findley,
218
–19
and the First Congress,
57
and land speculation,
118
,
201
and monetary policy,
152
and personal finances,
233
and Washington’s reelection,
157
Morrow, Jeremiah,
364
Morse, Jedidiah: on American climate,
387
–88
and the arts,
560
and conspiracy theories,
244
and Enlightenment ideals,
722
and fighting tradition,
328
and millennial beliefs,
617
and religion,
602
–3
and the Republican Party,
168
and social hierarchy,
105
Mount Vernon,
511
muckraking,
258
.
See also
newspapers
press
mulattos,
514
municipal governments,
466
–67
Murray, John R.,
568
Murray, Judith Sargent,
128
,
500
–501,
506
,
563
Murray, William Vans,
272
museums,
556
–57
Napoleon Bonaparte:
abdication,
689
,
701
and the arts,
571
and Battle of Austerlitz,
621
–22
and Battle of Trafalgar,
645
–46
and British naval power,
642
and conflict with France,
240
and control of Louisiana,
367
and the Embargo Act,
650
,
654
and the Floridas,
375
and the Louisiana Purchase,
368
–69,
371
and the Non-Intercourse Act,
664
,
665
and slave revolts,
537
and trade disputes,
667
and Treaty of Mortefontaine,
181
and war with Britain,
648
Narragansett Indians,
516
Narragansett Planters,
516
Nassau
(steam ferry),
483
National Anthem,
691
national banks,
98
,
281
,
692
.
See also
Bank of the United States (BUS)
national capital,
143
–45.
See also
Federal City
Washington, D. C.
National Convention,
659
National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving,
584
–85
national debt,
95
–97,
140
–41,
193
,
298
–301
National Intelligencer
,
651
,
690
–91,
720
National Road,
482
nationalism: and aristocracy,
78
–79
and Declaration of Independence,
641
and diplomacy,
622
and education,
469
and Hamilton,
103
–10
and international commerce,
630
and Jefferson-Madison relationship,
148
and the Jeffersonian revolution,
301
–2
and the Louisiana Purchase,
371
and Madison,
62
,
148
and national identity,
37
,
40
–42,
103
–10
and Randolph,
423
and trade disputes,
668
,
670
and the War of 1812,
4
,
696
–700,
732
and Washington’s retirement,
207
and the Whiskey Rebellion,
136
–37
Native Americans: and the British,
648
–49
Buffon on,
387
and cultural development,
42
and the Declaration of Independence,
9
and Enlightenment principles,
4
and immigration,
39
and international commerce,
194
and Jefferson,
394
and the Lewis and Clark expedition,
377
,
378
–79
and Ohio Territory,
2
and the War of 1812,
661
,
675
–76,
677
–79,
686
–87
and western settlement,
112
,
114
,
120
–23,
123
–33,
132
,
200
,
316
,
359
,
385
–94.
See also specific tribes
Natural History
(Buffon),
386
–87
naturalization laws,
247
–50,
291
Nautilus
(prototype submarine),
631
naval power and conflicts: and the Barbary States,
633
–39,
696
–700
and the Battle of the Nile,
271
and the Battle of the Thames,
686
and the Battle of Trafalgar,
645
–46
and blockades,
622
,
637
,
646
,
661
,
688
and constitutional issues,
636
–37
Cornwallis on,
241
and the Embargo Act,
652
–53
and impressment conflict,
641
–44
and Jefferson,
285
,
292
,
293
,
299
and the
Leopard-Chesapeake
affair,
647
–48
and neutral rights,
239
and the Quasi-War,
245
and the War of 1812,
672
,
680
–82,
683
,
684
–86,
688
–89
and western settlement,
358
“necessary and proper” clause,
271
,
371
–72
Nesbit, Charles,
727
neutral shipping rights: and conflicts with Britain,
640
,
643
–47
and France,
189
–92
and Jay’s Treaty,
197
and Jefferson,
622
–26
and Madison,
662
,
664
,
673
and Napoleon,
667
and ship seizures,
239
and the Treaty of Ghent,
695
,
697
and the War of 1812,
658
neutrality,
182
–85,
187
–88,
242
,
414
,
654
,
658
New Divinity Calvinists,
603
,
614
New England: and carrying trade,
624
–25
and civil society,
486
and education,
471
and European customs,
48
and federal patronage,
110
and judicial review,
455
and the Louisiana Purchase,
370
and Madison’s reelection,
683
and market economics,
322
–23,
324
n23,
326
and political parties,
169
and religion,
579
and slavery,
537
