HIST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Marine Industries, Barbary Pirates, Muscogee
15 Dec 2015
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As the first president of the newly formed united states, george washington played a largely passive role, suggesting few laws to congress, attempting to reassure the public he was above favoritism and sectional interests. Alexander hamilton, on the other hand, took advantage of washington"s reluctance to be involved with domestic issues, and, as secretary of the treasury, attempted to restore american credit by advocating a perpetual debt. Post revolutionary america west: in the late eighteenth century, masses of people had moved into the trans-appalachian frontier to escape post-revolutionary depression, despite the risk of violence presented by indians and the british in their northwest posts. Congress aided the expansion with the land and northwest ordinances. Post revolutionary america south: many of the southern citizens had bought land in the west and watched the price of land eagerly. Aside from the unstable land speculation, the south had recovered from the war. It had diversified its crops and exported them at prewar levels.
