The New Nation Chapter 8 Analysis

During the time period of 1786 through the 1800s, a lot of historical plans went into effect, which has shaped our nation today. In Chapter 8: The New Nation, plans of forming a brand new government had started mainly because of Whiskey’s and Shay’s rebellion. Each rebellion shed light on the extreme amount on taxes to the people, and it showed that the people needed some type of stability from the government. Three important men in chapter eight are George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams. George Washington became the First President of the United States or America on April 30, 1739. He ended up serving as president until 1797. During his presidency he did a lot of influential things with the constitution. He also appointed a cabinet with Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and a few other people. Jefferson and Hamilton basically competed for to get into Washington’s mind to help shape America Today. John Adams became the second president of the United States of America, and during his time as president he had to deal with the federalist dividing in the Revolution of 1800, while bumping heads with Hamilton a few times. Hamilton had wanted war, which Adams didn’t want, so Adams had threatened to resign his position as president …show more content…
This compromise resulted in such a chaotic uprising in the south and the north. Basically federalist were urban city people from the farmer people, or in simpler terms, the north verses the south. Mainly, the south still wanted slavery and the north felt it was wrong. Also people wanted to be in charge, it’s a shame how this nations feeds off of power, and who is in control. The south wanted more power and to be able to have slaves to work and make money for them. A compromise that was made was the 3/5th rule, which had allowed slaves to be counted three fifths as a person. Also slaves were only counted in representation but not in