The Making of the Nation, 1783-1817

William Pinkney, by William Pinkney.

John Marshall, by A. B. Magruder.

Aaron Burr, by M. L. Davis, 2 volumes; James Parton; Trial of

Aaron Burr, by D. Robertson, 2 volumes.

Elbridge Gerry, by J. T. Austin, 2 volumes.

Albert Gallatin, by Henry Adams; J. A. Stevens.

James Monroe, by D. C. Gilman.

John Randolph, by H. A. Garland, 2 volumes; Henry Adams.

George Cabot, by H. C. Lodge.

Josiah Quincy, by Edmund Quincy.

Lives of the Chief-Justices of the United States, by George Van Santvoord; Henry Flanders, 2 series.

FOREIGN RELATIONS.

Treaties and Conventions concluded between the United States and other Powers since July 4, 1776.

Freeman Snow: Treaties and Topics in American Diplomacy. W. H. Trescot: Diplomatic History of the Administrations of Washington and Adams.

Theodore Lyman: The Diplomacy of the United States (17781828), 2 volumes.

Francis Wharton: Digest of the International Law of the United States, 3 volumes.

WORKS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY.

F. W. Taussig: Tariff History of the United States.

W. G. Sumner: American Currency.

J. L. Bishop: History of American Manufactures, 2 volumes.
A. S. Bolles: Financial History of the United States, 1774-1789;
Financial History of the United States, 1789-1860.

H. C. Adams: Taxation in the United States, 1789-1816.

HISTORIES OF STATES.

New Hampshire, by Jeremy Belknap, Volumes II. and III. ; J. N. McClintock.

Vermont, by R. E. Robinson.

Massachusetts, by J. S. Barry, Volume III.

Rhode Island, by S. G. Arnold, Volume II.

Connecticut, by G. H. Hollister, Volume II.; Alexander John

ston.

New York, by E. H. Roberts, 2 volumes.

Pennsylvania, by W. M. Cornell.

Maryland, by J. T. Scharf, Volumes II. and III.; W. H. Browne. Virginia, by R. R. Howison, Volume II.; J. E. Cooke.

North Carolina, by J. W. Moore, Volume I.

South Carolina, by David Ramsay, Volume II.; W. G. Simms. Georgia, by C. C. Jones, 2 volumes.

Alabama, by W. Brewer.

Kentucky, by N. S. Shaler.

Ohio, by Rufus King.

Indiana, by J. P. Dunn, Jr.

Michigan, by T. M. Cooley.

The Old Northwest, by B. A. Hinsdale.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Martin Van Buren: Political Parties in the United States.

R. McK. Ormsby: History of the Whig Party.

J. D. Hammond: History of Political Parties in New York, 2 volumes.

E. D. Warfield: The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798.

Henry Adams: Documents Relating to New England Federalism (1800-1815).

Theodore Dwight: History of the Hartford Convention.

Journal of William Maclay (1789-1791), edited by E. S. Maclay. William Maclay: Sketches of Debate (1789-1791), edited by G. W. Harris.

William Sullivan: Familiar Letters on Public Characters and Public Events (1783-1815).

R. W. Griswold: The Republican Court, or American Society in the Days of Washington.

S. G. Goodrich: Recollections, 2 volumes.

Timothy Dwight: Travels in New England and New York, 4 volumes.

E. S. Maclay History of the United States Navy, 2 volumes. Francis A. Walker: The Indian Question.

The American Register (1806-1809), 7 volumes.

Niles's Weekly Register, Volumes I.-XII. (1811–1817).

A large number of valuable historical monographs and papers may be found in the seventh volume of Justin Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, in the publications of the Amer

ican Historical Association, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New York Historical Society, the Johns Hopkins University, Columbia College, the Magazine of American History, the Magazine of Western History, and various other historical and economic publications.

The following will appeal to the teacher or special student of history, rather than to the general reader :

Jonathan Elliot (editor): Debates, etc., 5 volumes.
Journals of Congress (1774–1788), 13 volumes.
Secret Journals of Congress (1775–1788), 4 volumes.
Annals of Congress, Volumes I.-XXX. (1789–1817).
T. H. Benton: Abridgment of Debates.

1817).

Volumes I.-V. (1789

Journal of the House of Representatives (1789-1815), 9 volumes. Legislative Journal of the Senate (1789-1815), 5 volumes. Executive Journal of the Senate (1789–1829), 3 volumes.

Statutes at Large. Volumes I.-III.

T. B. Waite State Papers and Public Documents of the United States (1789-1818), 12 volumes.

Edwin Williams (editor): The Statesman's Manual.

Volume I.

United States Supreme Court Reports, by Dallas, Volumes II.IV., and by Cranch, 9 volumes (to 1815); or, edition by Curtis, Volumes I.-III.

American State Papers :

Foreign Relations (1789-1828), 6 volumes.

Indian Affairs (1789-1827), 2 volumes.

Finances (1789-1828), 5 volumes.

Commerce and Navigation (1789-1823), 2 volumes.

Military Affairs (1789-1838), 7 volumes.

Naval Affairs (1789-1836), 4 volumes.

Post Office (1789-1833), 1 volume.

Public Lands (1789-1837), 8 volumes.
Claims (1789-1823), 1 volume.

Miscellaneous (1789-1823), 2 volumes.

INDEX

ADAMS, Charles Francis, quoted, | American nationality, sentiment of.
135.

Adams, John, commissioner to ne-
gotiate treaties of commerce,
1784-5, 13; vice-president with
Washington, 62; relations to his
cabinet, 90; a leader of the fede-
ralists, 95-6; renominated as vice-
president, 113; quoted. 131; rela-
tions to Jefferson, 132; elected
president, 134-5; his administra-
tion, Chapter VIII.; retains
Washington's secretaries, 137; his
conduct of the negotiations with
France, 138-44; his relation to
Alien and Sedition laws, 149, 151,
166-7; his cabinet officers intrigue
against him, 157-62; defeated for
re-election, 163-4; causes of that
defeat, 165-6; the midnight
appointments," 169-70; resents
search of a national vessel, 193;
the vice-president the natural suc-
cessor to the presidency, 211.
Adams, John Quincy, appointed
minister to Prussia, 143-4; sup-
ports embargo, 201; commis-
sioner at Treaty of Ghent, 247.
Adams, Samuel, opposes constitu-
tion of 1787, 57.

Addison, Judge, impeachment of,
172.

Agriculture, predominant occupa-
tion in the United States in 1790,
66; reasons for remarkable pro-
ductive power, 66-72.
Alabama Territory, 257.
Algiers. See Barbary States.
Alien Laws, the, 149; republican
opposition to, 151-5, 166-7.
Amendments to the constitution,
how made, 48-9; the first ten,
74-7, 256-7; the eleventh, 127–8;
the twelfth, 168-9.
American life in 1790, 65-67, 102-3.

See Nationality, American.
Annapolis, commercial convention
at, 19-20.

Armies, right to maintain, confined
to general government, 43, 45;
democratic-republican party ad-
vocate employment of a militia,
instead of regulars, in the Indian
wars, 106.
Armstrong, General, United States
minister at Paris, 218-20, 225.
Army, U. S. (see Regulars), com-
parative inefficiency at beginning
of War of 1812, 232-3.
Assumption of State debts, 80-1.
Attorney-General, office of, 89.

BACK PAY scandals (Congress),
256-7.

Bainbridge, Captain, in the Medi-
terranean, 186-7; in War of 1812,
231.

Baltimore, population in 1790, 64;
Hanson riot, 227-9; British at-
tack upon, 238.

Bank of the Revolution, 82.
Bank, First National, of the U. S.,
82-4; constitutionality, 82-3; the
second re-charter defeated in 1811,
253-4, 273; Second Bank char-
tered 1816, 261-2.
Bankruptcy laws, authority to en-
act, 43; first bankruptcy law un-
der Adams, 156; repealed under
Jefferson, 177; opposition of dem-
ocratic-republican party to such
legislation, 177.

Baptists settle in Rhode Island, 5.
Barbary States, controversies with,
123, 186-7, 248-9.

Barlow, Mr., United States minis-
ter to France, 222.
Barron, Commodore, in the Medi-
terranean, 187; in command of

the Chesapeake, when that frig-
ate was defeated by the Leop-
ard, 193.

Bayard, James A., charges a cor-
rupt bargain upon Mr. Jefferson,
170.

Bayonne decree, 197.

Berlin decree, 195-6, 200, 217-21,
225.

Blair, John, associate justice Su-
preme Court, 98.
Blockade, 194–6, 219, 225.
Blue Light Federalists, so-called,
243 n.

Bonaparte, his cession of Louisiana,
179-80; San Domingo revolt,
185-6; his decrees against neu-
tral trade, 195-6, 200, 218; his
power in 1812, 234; his fall en
ables England to send troops to
America, 236; destruction of his
continental system, 256.

Borgue, Lake, on boundary of Flor-
ida, as claimed by the Spaniards,
185.

Boston, population in 1790, 64.
Boundary, dispute as to, 185-6.
Bowdoin, Governor James, advo-
cates a closer union, 18; puts
down Shays's Rebellion, 19.
Bradford, William, 130.
Breckinridge, John, in Jefferson's
cabinet, 211.

Brock, General, commanding Brit-
ish forces in Canada, 235.
Brown, General Jacob, commands
United States forces in Canada,
236-7.

Burr, Aaron, his control of New
York politics, 162; his intrigue
to secure the presidency over
Jefferson, 164-5; becomes vice-
president, 165; presides at im-
peachment of Judge Chase, 172,
n.; goes over to the federalists,
188; kills Hamilton, 189; ar-
rested and tried for treason, 206;
his plans, 207-8.

CABINET, not recognized in consti-
tution, 89; development of this
function under first three presi-
dents, 90-1; should cabinet offi-
cers sit in Congress? 91-3;
Washington's cabinet, 93-6;
breaks up, 128-31; decline in

dignity of a cabinet position, 131;
Adams's cabinet, 137, 141, 157-62;
ethics of cabinet office, 158-9;
Jefferson's cabinet, 187-8, 210-11;
Madison's, 214-5, 263.

Cabot, George, president of the
Hartford Convention, 244.
Cadore, duc de, French minister,
218-19.

Calhoun, J. C., advocates war with
England, 2:22; advocates tariff of
1816, 261; attitude toward Second
National Bank, 262; advocates in-
ternal improvements, 262.
Campbell, George W., secretary of
the treasury, 256.

Canada, conquest of, declared to be
the real motive for the War of
1812, 225, 227, 230, 232, 242; in-
vasion of, 234-7.

Canning, George, English minister,
201.

Catholics settle in Maryland, 5; not
allowed to vote in some colonies,
50.

Caucus of members of Congress to

nominate candidates for president
and vice-president, 132-3, 224,
264.

Census of the United States, the
first, 108; the second, 156, 174;
the third, 233.

Centre of population, so-called,
265-6.

Ceremonial at the Executive Man-
sion, 99.

Champlain, Lake, battle of, 237.
Charleston, population of, in 1790,
64; federalist in sentiment, 96.
Chase, Judge, impeachment of,
172.

Chesapeake, United States frigate,
attacked by H. M. S. Leopard,
193, 198-9.

Chief Justice of the United States.
the office, 43; Jay appointed
97-8; Rutledge's confirmation re-
fused, 127; Ellsworth appoint-
ed, 126-7; Marshall appointed,
167.

Chippewa, battle of, 237.
Chisholm vs. the State of Georgia,
30, 127.

Cincinnati, the Society of, 125.
Civil service, the, under Mr. Jeffer-
son, 169-71, 175.

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