Whiskey Rebellion

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are very well-known for for their cross-country journey, where they met and traveled with Sacagawea, a native American woman from the Shoshone tribe. She acted as a translator and guide for the expedition. They made countless great discoveries, including many native tribes, not all of which were friendly. The group was composed of not just Lewis and Clark, but rather 31 members. Each member had their own unique specialty, such as woodworking or mapmaking, Lewis…

The existence of political parties can be dated back to the pre-revolutionary Whigs and Tories that arrived to the colonies from Great Britain. As the need for a division in politics subsided, these parties became less official factions. However, when the issues of the territory began to change, the presence of factions began to change. The evolution of factions into rivaling political parties in the 1790s resulted from contrasting views between Thomas Jefferson’s Republicans and Alexander…

Do people truly fit in the box society creates for them. Can one simply look at someone and immediately know how their life and their children 's lives would be like. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, mark twain reveals to society that you can judge a book by its cover and put someone in a box, but they won 't always conform to their surroundings. Twain wants society to stop labeling people and telling them what they can and cannot do. He wants to let them chose their own path and…

From the day he was born on January 11, 1755, Alexander Hamilton was destined for greatness, though it would be a long and tough journey. Hamilton was born on an island called Nevis, in the West Indies, but he spent most of his early life in Christiansted, the main city of St. Croix. St. Croix was one of the wealthiest islands in the West Indies, probably because it played an important role in the triangular trade route, exchanging slaves, rum, and sugar. Most of St. Croix was taken up by…

The political philosopher Isaiah Berlin classified thinkers into two general types: hedgehogs, who perceive the world through a single ideological lens, and foxes, who derive understanding from diverse experiences and ideas. Joseph Parent’s book, Uniting States: Voluntary Union in World Politics, suggests that he is a paradigmatic hedgehog. Starting with his acknowledgement of influence from Realist luminaries including Robert Art, James Fearon, Robert Jervis, John Mearsheimer, Steve Walt,…

ranch, and the humans, like Mr. Jones, transform the farm into a dictatorship. While the animals work diligently on the fields, Mr. Jones would take their eggs, milk, etc., and he would sell it to the other farmers or the market to obtain money for whiskey and alcohol or use the items for himself. Old Major elucidates to the animals how humans are the only creatures who consumes without producing. He says how humans does not give milk, does not lay eggs, is too feeble to pull the plough, and how…

If ranking presidents from best to worst, Washington by far has been the best president following him would be Jefferson then Madison and finally Adams. They all had very good presidencies, but some were better than the others. One was viewed by the public as a hero, the other was viewed as the writer of the declaration of independence, Madison was considered the father of the constitution and Adams was just viewed as a stubborn man. I choose president Washington as the best one because he was…

Jefferson then amended the Naturalization Act to allow resident aliens to become citizens after five years, which was the original waiting period. He abolished all internal taxes imposed by the Federalists, including the excise tax that sparked the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794. Jefferson reduced the amount of spending in his administration as well as in the nation’s armed forces. His financial cut allowed him to reduce the national debt by more than 25 percent. Jefferson complained that the…

In the 1790s, Thomas Jefferson, who supported a solid state and local government, helped establish the Democratic-Republican Party along with James Madison to restrict Hamilton's Federalist Party, which upheld for a powerful national government with expansive controls over the economy. After his election in 1801, Thomas Jefferson, to a large extent, altered his earlier philosophy as he took upon Federalist actions by purchasing Louisiana, passing the Embargo Act and going to war with the Barbary…

Virginia. When his dad died he moved to Georgia with his mom and stepdad. As he grew up he became more interested in science and history as well as hunting. (Wikipedia “Meriwether Lewis) In 1793 he joined the militia and later fought in the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794. Years later, on April 1, 1801, he became President Thomas Jefferson’s private secretary. (The Journals of Lewis and Clark)…