Exploring American Histories: Printed Page 217
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REVIEW & RELATE
What challenges did the new nation face in the immediate aftermath of the Revolutionary War?
How and why did the conflict between America and Great Britain continue after the war ended?
How did America’s experience of the Revolutionary War change the lives of African Americans and women?
What do uprisings by farmers and debtors tell us about social and economic divisions in the early Republic?
What issues attracted the most intense debate during the drafting and ratification of the Constitution? Why?
What role did Hamilton imagine the federal government playing in the American economy? Why were his proposals controversial?
How did events overseas shape domestic American politics in the 1790s?
What common concerns underlay the Whiskey Rebellion and Shays’s Rebellion? How did the U.S. government deal differently with each?
What were the main issues dividing the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans?
What do the Alien and Sedition Acts tell us about attitudes toward political partisanship in late-eighteenth-century America?