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Download or read book Righteous Anger at the Wicked States written by Calvin H. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the adoption of the US Constitution in terms of what the proponents were trying to accomplish.

Download or read book Makers of Modern Rhode Island The written by Patrick T. Conley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picking up where Rhode Island's Founders left off Dr. Patrick T. Conley, Rhode Island's preeminent historian and president of the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame, takes us through the Ocean State's history from 1790 to 1860. Learn how Samuel Slater, the Father of the Factory System, pioneered the making of modern Rhode Island, how Elizabeth Buffum Chace founded the Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Association and what political circumstances led Governor Thomas Wilson Dorr to the Dorr War in 1842. This newly revised and updated edition includes colorful biographical sketches of fifty-six influential Rhode Islanders who helped shape the state's urban and industrial development into the modern Rhode Island of today, including some lesser-known Rhode Islanders, including Eliza Jumel and Adin Ballou.

Download or read book Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society written by Rhode Island Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1893-1900 the Publications of the Society include its Proceedings, 1892/93-1899/1900.

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Download or read book Publications of the Rhode Island Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1893-1900 the Publications of the Society include its Proceedings, 1892/93-1899/1900.

Download or read book Righteous Anger at the Wicked States written by Calvin H. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history that explains the adoption of the US Constitution in terms of what the proponents of the Constitution were trying to accomplish. The Constitution was a revolutionary document replacing the confederation mode with a complete three-part national government supreme over the states. The most pressing need was to allow the federal government to tax to pay off the Revolutionary War debts. In the next war, the United States would need to borrow again. The taxes needed to restore the public credit proved to be quite modest, however, and the Constitution went far beyond the immediate fiscal needs. This book argues that the proponents' anger at the states for their recurring breaches of duty to the united cause explains both critical steps and the driving impetus for the revolution. Other issues were less important.

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Download or read book The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788 1790 written by Merrill Jensen and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On spine: The first Federal elections, 1788-1790.Vols. 2-3: Gordon DenBoer, editor, Lucy Trumbull Brown, associate editor, Charles D. Hagermann, editorial assistant; v. 4: Gordon DenBoer, editor ... [et al.]. Includes bibliographies and indexes.

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