Sources: Encyclopedia of the New American Nation: The Emergence of the United States, 1754–1829

Abstract

1 online resource (3 volumes) :; A three-volume survey of the formative years of the United States, starting just prior to the American Revolution and ending with the inauguration of Andrew Jackson in 1829. Presents 671 alphabetically arranged entries focusing on the major political markers and milestones, as well as the art, music, literature and daily life, of this period. For secondary and college students, researchers, and general readers; Includes bibliographical references and index; v. 1. Abolition of Slavery in the North -- Abolition Societies -- Academic and Professional Societies -- Acadians -- Adams, John -- Adams, John Quincy -- Advertising -- Affection -- African Americans -- African Americans: Overview -- African American Life and Culture -- African American Literature -- African American Religion -- African American Responses to Slavery and Race -- Free Blacks in the North -- Free Blacks in the South -- African Survivals -- Agriculture -- Agriculture: Overview -- Agricultural Improvement -- Agricultural Technology -- Alabama -- Alaska -- Albany -- Albany Plan of Union -- Alcohol Consumption -- Alcoholic Beverages and Production -- Alien and Sedition Acts -- Almanacs -- America and the World -- American Character and Identity -- American Indians -- American Indians: Overview -- American Indians: Northern New England -- American Indians: Southern New England -- American Indians: Middle Atlantic -- American Indians: Southeast -- American Indians: Old Northwest -- American Indians: Old Southwest -- American Indians: Plains -- American Indians: Far West -- American Indian Ethnography -- American Indian Policy, 1787-1830 -- American Indian Relations, 1763-1815 -- American Indian Relations, 1815-1829 -- American Indian Religions -- American Indian Removal -- American Indian Resistance to White Expansion -- American Indians as Symbols/Icons -- American Indian Slaveholding -- American Indians: British Policies -- Americanization -- American Philosophical Society -- Americans in Europe -- Anglicans and Episcopalians -- Annapolis Convention -- Anti-Catholicism -- Anti-Federalists -- Anti-Masons -- Antislavery -- Appalachia -- Archaeology -- Architectural Styles -- Architecture -- Architecture: American Indian -- Architecture: Greek Revival -- Architecture: Parks and Landscape -- Architecture: Public -- Architecture: Religious -- Architecture: Spanish Borderlands -- Architecture: Vernacular -- Arithmetic and Numeracy -- Arkansas -- Army, U.S. -- Army Culture -- Arsenals -- Art and American Nationhood -- Articles of Confederation -- Asylums -- Aurora -- Authorship -- Autobiography and Memoir -- Backsliding -- Balloons -- Baltimore -- Banking System -- Bank of the United States -- Bankruptcy Law -- Baptists -- Barbary Wars -- Barter -- Benevolent Associations -- Bible -- Bill of Rights -- Biology -- Blackface Performance -- Blount Conspiracy -- Book Trade -- Boston -- Boston Massacre -- Boston Tea Party -- Botany -- British Army in North America -- British Empire and the Atlantic World -- Bunker Hill, Battle of -- Burr Conspiracy -- Cabinet and Executive Department -- Camp Followers -- Canada -- Capital Punishment -- Cartography -- Cartoons, Political -- Catholicism and Catholics -- Cemeteries and Burial -- Character -- Charleston -- Chemistry -- Chesapeake Affair -- Chesapeake Region -- Childbirth and Childbearing -- Childhood and Adolescence -- Children's Literature -- China Trade -- Chisholm v. Georgia -- Cincinnati -- Circuses -- Citizenship -- City Growth and Development -- City Planning -- Civil Engineering and Building Technology -- Class -- Class: Overview -- Development of the Working Class -- Rise of the Middle Class -- Classical Heritage and American Politics -- Clothing -- Coinage Act of 1792 -- Colonization Movement -- Communitarian Movements and Utopian Communities -- Concept of Empire -- Congregationalists -- Congress -- Connecticut -- Constitution: Eleventh Amendment -- Constitution: Twelfth Amendment -- Constitution, Ratification of -- Constitutional Convention -- Constitutionalism -- Constitutionalism: Overview -- Constitutionalism: American Colonies -- State Constitution Making -- Constitutional Law -- Construction and Home Building -- Consumerism and Consumption -- Continental Army -- Continental Congresses -- Contraception and Abortion -- Corporal Punishment -- Corporations -- Cotton -- Cotton Gin -- Courtship -- Creek War -- Crime and Punishment -- Currency and Coinage -- Dairy Industry -- Dance -- Dartmouth College v. Woodward -- Death and Dying -- Debt and Bankruptcy -- Declaration of Independence -- Deism -- Delaware -- Democratic Republicans -- Democratization -- Demography -- Denominationalism -- Diplomatic and Military Relations, American Indian -- Disability -- Disciples of Christ -- Disestablishment -- Divorce and Desertion -- Domestic Life -- Domestic Violence -- Drugs -- Dueling -- Economic Development -- Economic Theory -- Education -- Education: Overview -- Elementary, Grammar, and Secondary Schools -- Colleges and Universities -- Professional Education -- American Indian Education -- Education of African Americans -- Education of Girls and Women -- Education of the Deaf -- Proprietary Schools and Academies -- Public Education -- Education: Tutors -- Election of 1796 -- Election of 1800 -- Election of 1824 -- Election of 1828 -- Emancipation and Manumission -- Embargo -- Emotional Life -- Encyclopédie -- Environment, Environmental History, and Nature -- Epidemics -- Equality -- Era of Good Feeling -- Erie Canal -- Erotica -- European Influences -- Enlightenment Thought -- The French Revolution -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Napoleon and Napoleonic Rule -- European Responses to America -- Expansion -- Exploration and Explorers; v. 2. Fairs -- Fallen Timbers, Battle of -- Fame and Reputation -- Farm Making -- Fashion -- Federalism -- Federalist Papers -- Federalist Party -- Federalists -- Fiction -- Firearms (Nonmilitary) -- Fires and Firefighting -- First Ladies -- Fisheries and the Fishing Industry -- Flag of the United States -- Flags -- Fletcher v. Peck -- Flogging -- Florida -- Folk Arts -- Food -- Foreign Investment and Trade -- Forts and Fortifications -- Founding Fathers -- Fourth of July -- Franklin, Benjamin -- Freedom of the Press -- Free Library Movement -- Freemasons -- French -- French and Indian War, Battles and Diplomacy -- French and Indian War, Consequences of -- Fries's Rebellion -- Frontier -- Frontier Religion -- Frontiersmen -- Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 -- Fur and Pelt Trade -- Furniture -- Gabriel's Rebellion -- Gambling -- Games and Toys, Children's -- Gender -- Gender: Overview -- Gender: Ideas of Womanhood -- Geography -- Georgia -- German-Language Publishing -- Ghent, Treaty of -- Gibbons v. Ogden -- Government -- Government: Overview -- Government: Local -- Government: State -- Government: Territories -- Government and the Economy -- Gunpowder, Munitions, and Weapons (Military) -- Haitian Revolution -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hamilton's Economic Plan -- Happiness -- Hartford Convention -- Health and Disease -- Heating and Lighting -- Hessians -- Historical Memory of the Revolution -- History and Biography -- Holidays and Public Celebrations -- Home -- Homosexuality -- Horseshoe Bend, Battle of -- Hospitals -- Housing -- Humanitarianism -- Humor -- Iconography -- Illinois -- Immigration and Immigrants -- Immigration and Immigrants: Overview -- Immigration and Immigrants: Canada -- Immigration and Immigrants: England and Wales -- Immigration and Immigrants: France -- Immigration and Immigrants: Germans -- Immigration and Immigrants: Ireland -- Immigration and Immigrants: Scots and Scots-Irish -- Anti-Immigrant Sentiment/Nativism -- Immigrant Experience -- Immigrant Policy and Law -- Immigration and Immigrants: Political Refugees -- Immigration and Immigrants: Race and Ethnicity -- Imperial Rivalry in the Americas -- Impressment -- Independence -- Indiana -- Individualism -- Industrial Revolution -- Inheritance -- Insurance -- Internal Improvements -- Interracial Sex -- Intolerable Acts -- Inventors and Inventions -- Iron Mining and Metallurgy -- Iroquois Confederacy -- Jackson, Andrew -- Jay, John -- Jay's Treaty -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jews -- Judaism -- Judicial Review -- Judiciary Act of 1789 -- Judiciary Acts of 1801 and 1802 -- Kentucky -- Labor Movement: Labor Organizations and Strikes -- Lafayette, Marie-Joseph, Marquis de (1757-1834) -- Lake Erie, Battle of -- Land Policies -- Land Speculation -- Language -- Latin American Influences -- Latin American Revolutions, American Response to -- Law -- Federal Law -- Slavery Law -- State Law and Common Law -- Women and the Law -- Leather and Tanning Industry -- Legal Culture -- Lewis and Clark Expedition -- Lexington -- Lexington and Concord, Battle of -- Liberia -- Liberty -- Livestock Production -- London -- Louisiana -- Louisiana Purchase -- Louisville -- Loyalists -- Lumber and Timber Industry -- Madison, James -- Magazines -- Maine -- Malaria -- Male Friendship -- Manliness and Masculinity -- Manners -- Manufacturing -- Manufacturing, in the Home -- Marbury v. Madison -- Marines, U.S. -- Maritime Technology -- Market Revolution -- Marriage -- Marshall, John -- Martin v. Hunter's Lessee -- Maryland -- Massachusetts -- Material Culture -- McCulloch v. Maryland -- Medicine -- Mental Illness -- Merchants -- Mesmerism -- Methodists -- Mexico -- Michigan -- Mid-Atlantic States -- Migration and Population Movement -- Military Technology -- Militias and Militia Service -- Millennialism -- Mint, United States -- Missionary and Bible Tract Societies -- Mississippi -- Mississippi River -- Missouri -- Missouri Compromise -- Monroe, James -- Monroe Doctrine -- Monuments and Memorials -- Moravians -- Mormonism, Origins of -- Museums and Historical Societies -- Music -- Music: African American -- Music: Classical -- Music: Patriotic and Political -- Music: Popular -- Muslims, Concepts and Images of -- Naming of the