YEARS OF CRISIS. YEARS OF CRISIS, 1792–1796 Foreign Trade and Foreign Wars Republican support for the French Revolution Neutrality Act, 1793 Citizen Genet.

YEARS OF CRISIS

YEARS OF CRISIS, 1792–1796

Foreign Trade and Foreign Wars

•Republican support for the French Revolution

•Neutrality Act, 1793

•Citizen GenetLiberty Leading the People, Eugene Delacroix, 1830

Source: theguardian.com

YEARS OF CRISIS, 1792–1796

The Whiskey Rebellion•Protests against the whiskey tax•Fears of outside intervention•Washington responds•A new political party

Source: mountvernon.gov

YEARS OF CRISIS, 1792–1796

Further Conflicts on the Frontier•Settlement in Ohio and Mississippi River valleys

•Battle of Fallen Timbers• Jay Treaty•Pinckney Treaty

THE FIRST PARTY SYSTEM

The Adams Presidency•The election of 1796

•XYZ affair•Alien and Sedition Acts

The Election of 1800•Selecting candidates

• Jefferson’s victorySource: whitehouse.gov

CREATING A NEW CULTURE

CREATING AN AMERICAN IDENTITY

Education for a New Nation

•Public education•Frontier colleges•Role of women

Source: libs.uga.edu

LITERARY AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS

•Hartford Wits•American novels•American histories•Arts and sciences

Source: willbradley.com

THE RACIAL LIMITS OF AMERICAN CULTURE

•Portrayals of Indians and African Americans•African American education•Education of Native Americans•Cultural assumptions

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CREATING AN AMERICAN IDENTITY

Emigration and Colonization

•Support for emigration of American blacks to Africa

•Opposition to the idea•Why it did not work

Building a National Capital

•Labor•Design•Physical and social landscape

A NEW CULTURE• Renaming the land

• Eliminate many British names.• King Street becomes

State Street, etc• They use names of war

heroes (Washington, Mercer, etc).

• Interest in naming many things after Christopher Columbus.

• A new language• Noah Webster creates a

dictionary that made a language of “our own,” by rejecting many English conventions.

Source: connecticuthistory.org

A NEW CULTURE

• Artistic push to celebrate and document the American landscape.

• Many organizations that attempted to “improve society,” via promotion of manumission or temperance, etc.