During the American Revolution John Adams deliberated the reasons and worth of the fight. ... At this time in the American Revolution only a few colonies with militias fighting against the British. ... Before the American Revolution, the American colonists and the British army fought together in the French and Indian War. ... The colonists were angry that Britain had given the land that they couldn't settle in, back to the French. ... The French now had the same resources and profitable goods that the colonies had, the Americans now had to compete for customers with France. ...

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This area was returned to Spain when the British signed the second Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, which concluded the American Revolution and recognized the former 13 colonies as the free and sovereign United States of America. That same day Great Britain also signed separate treaties with France, an ally of the U.S., and Spain, an ally of France (Crawely 123-127). ... Louisiana was of diminishing importance to France. ... What about the French in Louisiana? ... He saw what America could and has become with the addition of the territory; he knew it was essential in order for the Unit...

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National Bank For the newly formed nation, the result of the Revolution left an enormous debt hanging as first priority to Washington's cabinet. ... First Cunningham addresses their opinions with the French Revolution. ... Through these letters, Cunningham points out that Jefferson, although he "deplores bloodshed" (Cunningham, 2000, p. 108), believed that the result of the French Revolution was worth it. ... The French Revolution affected the U.S. because of the alliance that was formed with the French during the American Revolution. ...

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Dealings with countries like Britain and France required the continued reliance of America on Old World Europe and involvement in its distant affairs. Also, the shipping of goods across the Atlantic was a costly enterprise even before factoring in the frequent seizing of American trade ships by the French and other countries that possessed formidable navies. ... (Major Problems, p. 190) Thomas Jefferson felt that the influx of immigrants would be detrimental to a nation he saw as developing purely and in a different, happier path then the past failures of Great Britain or France. ... To f...

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The French and Indian war took place in America. ... At first the British were frighten of the French who devastated their settlements but they were able to recover after William Pitt was at the command of the operations. Slowly they took control over the war and forced the French out of their colonies up to Quebec were they cornered French soldiers up a rocky embankment. ... It did just that, the movement gained supporters and allies, including France. ... Not only that, this new way of thinking rapidly spread along the world, influencing numerous revolutions in the 18th century, including...

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The French and English conflict caused many problems with America's political system. ... The French reacted by seizing American ships causing the threat of war to loom large in American minds. ... They immediately renounced all treaties of 1788 with France and began their agenda of creating a large standing army and a Navy Department to deal with the threat of an American-French war. Fear and patriotism were fanned and a strong anti-French sentiment swept the land. ... Hamilton equated the public's perception of the Republican's opposition to the Federalist's agenda like t...

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The American Revolution marked the beginning of a new nation. The Revolution's leaders believed in a set of principles and achieving specific goals. ... The successful revolution against the British, the ratification and successful implementation of the United States Constitution in March of 1789, and the development of manufacturing and westward expansion fulfilled the American Revolution's goals. ... Franklin explains that American colonists governed themselves many years before the revolution. ... They also fought a costly war with France called the French and Indian War. ...

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Jefferson sparked change in the hearts of many men during the American Revolution. ... Thomas Jefferson had strong views of independence and in his heart, he knew that the possibilities of a new revolution were soon to come. ... It was a negotiation for land between the United States and France in 1803, in which the U.S. gained approximately 827,000 square miles of land to the west of the Mississippi River for $15 million dollars. ... In the middle of April in 1803, shortly before Monroe's arrival, the French asked Livingston if the United States was interested in purchasing all of Louisi...

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" Great Britain and France had been intermittently at war since 1793. ... British did this by blockading the French coast and in 1807 it passed the Orders in Council, which required neutral countries to obtain a license before trading with France. Napoleon, and the French responded by blockading the British coast, through the Continental System. American ships caught in these blockades were taken for use by both the British and French navy's and by 1812 Britain had taken a 1000 American ships and the French had taken 500. ... Madison agreed with Congress and believed that it was eit...

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Adams and Congress had to prepare for war; meanwhile the French seized American ships. This added on to the threats and actions the French had already made and took. ... Adams then damaged any chance he had of reelection by opening up negotiations with France in 1800. ... The Macon's Bill No. 2 was passed, which basically reversed the ban of trade with France and Britain. ... A large portion of the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Northwest became an interdependent, self-supporting society and this became known as the "market revolution" and at the same time, a middle class was ...

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A child of the American Revolution, John Quincy Adams was the first President of American History whose father, John Adams, also served a term as President of the United States of America. ... It was at nine years of age that JQA experienced, first hand, the American Revolution. ... It was within the first year of the war that it has been said that JQA learned of the harsh realities of growing up into a man, and later recalls in life feeling responsible "as the eldest son "for protecting his mother while his father attended to the business of revolution (The American Preside...

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After being elected into office in 1789, one of George Washington's priorities as President of the United States was to select a cabinet. Washington waited to make his selections as Congress created the departments of Treasury, War, and State. His choices were based on talent and experience, not o...

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Rather, he asserts that the ongoing arguments between Republicans and Federalists, individualists and nationalists, or Jeffersonians and Hamiltonians, regarding the ideological "true" meaning of the American Revolution, have been developed into the foundation of the United States, and have severely affected its future. ... The topic of assumption of state debts by the federal government illustrates the broader argument of federalism versus republicanism, and has continued as an American economic disagreement many years after the American Revolution. ... The Republicans claimed that assumption ...

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His mother was Rachel Fawcette, daughter of a Protestant French Planter and physician. ... At the end of the Revolution, Hamilton went and studied law in Albany, New York. ... Hamilton submitted a report to Congress in 1790 on the public credit that supplied for the funding of international and national debts of the United States, along with the assumption of the state's debts of the revolution. ... In 1798, when war with France seemed eminent President John Adams appointed Hamilton reluctantly at the insistence of George Washington. ...

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Washington's political and military career began as early as 1754 when he participated in the French and Indian War as a leader of a Virginia regiment. ... (p. 98) Laboring against great difficulties, he created the Continental Army, which fought and won the American Revolution (1775-1783), out of what was little more than an armed mob. ... (p.105) He traveled to France on several occasions to correspond between the two countries during the war. ...

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During the Glorious Revolution, tensions drew in America over the crowning of King James II. ... Rene Descartes, a French philosopher and scientist, believed that reason and rationality defined all sciences and philosophies. ...

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But when Napoleon forced Spain to cede the Louisiana territory to France Jefferson got worried. ... The public enlightened Jefferson during the revolution and Jackson during the war of 1812. ... At this time many other southern American countries had their own revolutions and Spain was forced to take their troops out of this region. ...

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Jefferson made this statement, "I was the pen of the American Revolution, as George Washington was the sword." ... For over a month, he mourned his loss, than in November of 1784 he agreed to be a commissioner to France. ...

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