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In 1791, Robert Carter III was met with fierce opposition when he presented his “Deed of Gift” document stating his intention to free his over 450 slaves.
Andrew Levy, The First Emancipator: The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves (New York: Random House, 2005), xi.
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In 1796, Congress established a peacetime army of 3,000 soldiers.
Paul Douglas Newman, Fries’s Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 69. In the debates following President George Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793 (concerning a conflict between Britain and France), Alexander Hamilton published essays supporting the proclamation under the name Pacificus while James Madison wrote responses under the name Helvidius.
Jack N. Rakove, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (New York: Longman, 1990), 108-110. To combat the low price for tobacco paid by the monopolistic American Tobacco Company in the early 1900s, a group called the Night Riders burned tobacco fields and warehouses in western Kentucky and Tennessee of anyone doing business with the company.
Jim Rasenberger, America 1908: The Dawn of Flight, the Race to the Pole, the Invention of the Model T, and the Making of a Modern Nation (New York: Scibner, 2007), 76-77. |
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