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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Report on the Public Credit|in 1790-91, Hamilton issued three reports to Congress recommending laws and policies designed to reduce the War debts, grow the economy, and protect national industry; his 1790 "Report on the Public Credit" outlined the extent of US debt, held mostly by private Americans but also foreigners. Hamilton proposed that the federal government "assume" or buy this debt and establish a system for managing "public credit" and paying off the debts; the existing holders of the debt were set to profit enormously from the scheme; the new debt was to be paid off through duties and excise taxes; the proposals led to the first serious political split in the new country; a compromise was made in 1790 to settle the new Capitol, Washington, DC, in the South (between Maryland and Virginia) in exchange for southern support (northern states held more War debt) of Hamilton's plan to "assume" the debts}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Report on the Public Credit|in 1790-91, Hamilton issued three reports to Congress recommending laws and policies designed to reduce the War debts, grow the economy, and protect national industry; his 1790 "Report on the Public Credit" outlined the extent of US debt, held mostly by private Americans but also foreigners. Hamilton proposed that the federal government "assume" or buy this debt and establish a system for managing "public credit" and paying off the debts; the existing holders of the debt were set to profit enormously from the scheme; the new debt was to be paid off through duties and excise taxes; the proposals led to the first serious political split in the new country; a compromise was made in 1790 to settle the new Capitol, Washington, DC, in the South (between Maryland and Virginia) in exchange for southern support (northern states held more War debt) of Hamilton's plan to "assume" the debts}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Report on Manufactures|Hamilton's 1791 report to Congress for the promotion of US manufacturing industry through tariffs, "internal improvements" (see above) and government loans to and purchases of American products, especially for national defense; note that creation of the National Bank was integral to Hamilton's economic plans}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Report on Manufactures|Hamilton's 1791 report to Congress for the promotion of US manufacturing industry through tariffs, "internal improvements" (see above) and government loans to and purchases of American products, especially for national defense; note that creation of the National Bank was integral to Hamilton's economic plans}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Republican motherhood|in the early Republic, the notion of female participation in | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Republican motherhood|in the early Republic, the notion of female participation in republican governance through raising and educating their sons in republicanism and in upholding those values in their own lives and outlook}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:republicanism|political doctrine of representative government through the votes of citizens of equal political status; republicanism was strongly anti-monarchy and anit-aristocracy; elements of republican philosophy include democracy, honest governance, individualism, property rights, self-rule}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:republicanism|political doctrine of representative government through the votes of citizens of equal political status; republicanism was strongly anti-monarchy and anit-aristocracy; elements of republican philosophy include democracy, honest governance, individualism, property rights, self-rule}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Treaty of Greenville|following | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Treaty of Greenville|1795; after setbacks in military challenges to and failed treaties with Ohio Valley tribes in the late 1780s and early 1790s (especially victories by Miami tribe chief, "Little Turtle" in 1790/91) Washington sent a larger force under Rev. War hero General "Mad" Anthony Wayne; following Wayne's victory at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in Ohio, the US Army, sent to Ohio by Washington, signed a treaty with a group of Ohio Valley tribes, the "Western Confederacy," to exchange material and monetary payments to the tribes in exchange for land; the treaty opened up most of modern Ohio to settlement and, ultimately, its admission as a state in 1820}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Whiskey Rebellion|1794; western Pennsylvania farmers objected to the 1791 federal "whisky tax", and "excise" tax on "spirits" (alcohol), which was a big part of Hamilton's economic and fiscal program; protesters attacked tax collectors and federal officers sent to enforce the law; Washington ordered federal troops and state militia to put down the rebellion, an assertion of federal powers}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Whiskey Rebellion|1794; western Pennsylvania farmers objected to the 1791 federal "whisky tax", and "excise" tax on "spirits" (alcohol), which was a big part of Hamilton's economic and fiscal program; protesters attacked tax collectors and federal officers sent to enforce the law; Washington ordered federal troops and state militia to put down the rebellion, an assertion of federal powers}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Washington's Farewell Address}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Washington's Farewell Address}}</ul></li> | ||