It was in the Revolution that the economic crisis causing Shays' rebellion began.
Radicals in the states demanded economic regulation.
The most controversial remedies were for relieving debtors and common taxpayers' burdens.
The Annapolis Convention, convinced of the absolute need to strengthen the government of the country, passed a resolution calling on Confederation Congress to send delegates to a national convention render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union.
The Virginia plan was drafted by Madison and his fellow Virginians.
Following two weeks of discussion, New Jersey's William Paterson has an alternative the New Jersey Plan became known.
After a lot of discussion, the delegates finally agreed to what the Great Compromise was called.
The new Constitution's supporters immediately took the name federalists for description.
The Congress approved the Bill of Rights in 1791 and sent it to the States.
Congress quickly moved to the establishment of State affairs departments and was soon elected by Washington as State Secretary Thomas Jefferson
The first session of congress saw a major piece of legislation which was the Judiciary Act of 1789 implemented by Congress the Constitution's judicial clause
The new government had important fiscal and economic affairs.
In relation to American foreign policy the conflict between Hamilton and Jefferson grew even more bitter.
The fall of the French monarchy was welcomed enthusiastically by most Americans.
This inconsistent policy has been pursued by the new federal government.
Spain has introduced a liberal reform to revive the governmental bureaucracy of its American empire under the dynamic leadership of King Carlos III and his able ministers.
Great Britain and Spain secret agents tried to persuade American settlers to abandon the Union and join Canada or Florida.
The strengthened United States position in the West finally encouraged the British, in order to focus on the Republican France's defeat, to settle their dispute with the US.
Hamilton's conception of American neutrality has been established by the Treaty of Jay.
At a time when Washington considered it a state of siege, it was the "Whiskey Rebellion."
Washington published a "Farewell Address" to the nation during the last months of its term.
A series of shifting coalitions was obvious in the debates and votes of Congress from 1789 to 1795.
The tensions between the US and France have increased for Adams.
After a British naval victory against the French in August 1798, at Aboukir Bay, Egypt, the fears of a French invasion declined, but what became known as "the quasi-war" between France and the US continued.
The Alien Act and the Act concerning the Alien Enemies permitted the President to order that the suspected aliens be imprisoned or deported during war.
The Republicans were the party of traditional agricultural pureness, freedom and the rights of the States.