Alien and Sedition Acts

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is one of the most compelling modern texts that discusses fear and how it affects society as a whole, as well as the individual. It is no coincidence that this play was written during the contemporary witch hunt called the Red Scare. Miller was clearly using the many similarities between the early colonial setting of his writing and the bleak truths of his time period to draw attention to patterns that repeat throughout history and will continue to repeat as long as…

underwater attack was much less successful than the aerial attack. This attack did not only weaken the fleet of ships, but it also weakened the force of the United States Air Force. The Japanese also faced some consequences. As revenge for this terrible act, the United States decided to drop a nuclear bomb on 2 of Japan’s cities, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. This, of course, was larger scale than the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Around 90,000–146,000 people died in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Today,…

Once President John Adams signed the acts, conflict arose that they were only in place to suppress voters, but they were still used. Louisiana Purchase (1803) An exchange of land between United States and France. Napoleon sold the territory to Thomas Jefferson for around 15 million dollars…

recognizing judicial review as unconstitutional. In the same year, the United States was doubled in size by the Louisiana Purchase. In 1807, the Embargo Act backfired economically because we needed to trade with Britain more than they needed to trade with us. However, it did achieve the central purpose of us not going to war with France. In 1809 the act is repealed and in 1812 a war breaks out between the U.S. and Great Britain. Causes of the War of 1812 include merchant grievances – Britain…

Constitution, or to extend the verbal meaning of the expressions of the instrument so as to include by ingenious implication, powers not meant to be conceded by the States who met in Confederation, is on the part of the General Government usurpation; to act upon powers thus assumed,…

The civil war was a devastating American war that pitted the north against the south, resulting in over 600,000 American casualties, making it the deadliest war in United States history. The war officially lasted from 1861-1865, but animosity between the Union north and Confederate south had been building up for decades leading to the war. The causes of the civil war are numerous and complex, but the four basic ideas behind it were their differing economies, slavery, states rights, and secession…

If an interest group supports an extreme policy, advocacy groups can result in polarization through their influences in PACs. On the other hand, because party insiders want to win the elections, they invest in candidates who will be more appealing in general elections--that is it, candidates who will appeal to the median voter (Drutman 1, 2013). This is because most of the voters are moderate. Such an ideology is due to feeling unrelated to conservative or liberal views and, in some instances,…

govt. which forbade expansion by the colonists west of the Appalachian Mountains. Chapter 7 Vocab: 11. John Hancock - Led the Sons of Liberty and the acts at Lexington/Concord. He was president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first to sign the Declaration. 12. Charles Townshend - Persuaded Parliament in 1767 to pass the Townshend Acts, which put taxes on lead, paint, paper, and tea. Later, all but the tax on tea was repealed. 13. Marquis de Lafayette - Young Frenchman who was a…

Shortly after the ratification of the Constitution, George Washington unanimously won the presidential election of 1789. Striving towards a nation of unity, Washington set up a cabinet of four strong individuals in order to inaugurate a system of both balance and credibility. Although Washington was strongly against political parties, it wasn’t long until they began to emerge. Filling the cabinet with tension, Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of Treasury, and Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State,…

Jack N. Rakove, James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (Pearson, 1990). Reviewed by Hampton N. Roy, September 5, 2017. Jack N. Rakove is currently the W.R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies, as well as a professor of political science at Stanford University. He is the author of six books and has won numerous awards, most notable the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for History for his work questioning the validity of originalism, Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the…