Articles about Government in North America from 1600 to 1800
- Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson
- Primary conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson.
- Articles of Confederation Explained
- How America’s first government shaped the Constitution.
- Bill of Rights: The First Ten Amendments
- Original text of the Bill of Rights
- Birth of the Bill of Rights
- Compromise created protections for individual rights.
- Boston Tea Party: Seeds of Revolution
- Defiance in Boston sparks a movement for independence.
- Constitution of the United States
- Building a Stronger Government
- Constitutional Convention of 1787
- Compromise and debate led to the birth of the Constitution.
- Declaration of Independence
- Declared the colonies' independence from Great Britain and laid out the principles on which the new nation would be built.
- Enlightenment Thought Guided U.S. Democracy
- Explores Enlightenment influence on America’s founding principles.
- Federalist Papers
- How arguments and compromises built a nation.
- Federalists and Anti-Federalists
- Differences between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists during the American Revolution.
- George Washington and Early Political Divisions
- Washington set precedents that shaped the presidency forever.
- Government and Daily Life in the Thirteen Colonies
- Explore how early settlers built self-rule and community traditions.