In the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans cast John Adams and his administration as

How did Noah Webster aim to make Americans more independent from Britain in the early republic?

Why did Americans of the early republic harbor suspicions toward established colleges like Harvard, Yale, or the College of William and Mary?

Upon becoming president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson reversed Federalist policy by

Why did planters’ wives in the South not share the concerns of their northern counterparts about pregnancies among their servants?

Why did northern free blacks generally oppose the efforts of the American Colonization Society?

How did President Thomas Jefferson undermine the ideal of Washington City as a beacon of republican liberty?

How was the Whiskey Rebellion different from Shays’s Rebellion?

Why did President Washington issue the Neutrality Proclamation in 1793?

In addition to Indian uprisings, the federal government feared that the Whiskey Rebellion in Pennsylvania might