Adams, John, on American Peace Commission, [9] et seq.; personal characteristics, [10]; negotiates commerical treaty with the Netherlands, [11]; on fisheries question, [13]-[14]; on settlement of commercial indebtedness, [14]-[15]; on granting compensation to Loyalists, [20]; complains of trade restriction for New England, [26].
Adams, Samuel, and the Constitution, [151], [152].
Albany Congress (1754), [49], [50].
Annapolis Trade Convention (1786), [100]-[106].
Anti-Federalist party, [147].
Articles of Confederation, adoption (1777), [49]-[50]; ratification (1781), [50], [57]-[59]; based on Franklin’s plan of Union, [51]-[52]; provisions, [52]-[54], [67]-[68], [86], [100]; questions of land ownership delay ratification, [56]-[57], [58]; financial power of Congress under, [86]; failure of Commercial amendment of 1784, [99]; relation of Constitution, [125], [131], [144]; defects corrected in Constitution, [142]; attempt at revision, [144]-[145]; text, [175]-[189].
Assenisipia, [69].
B
Bancroft, George, History of the Formation of the Constitution, cited, [103] [(note)].
Biddle, Charles, Autobiography, on the Constitution, [141].
Bowdoin, James, Governor of Massachusetts, and Shays’ Rebellion, [94], [95].
Bryce, Lord, cited, [13] [(note)].
C
Cambridge (Mass.), Shays’ Rebellion at, [94].
Canada, Loyalists go to, [19]; Articles of Confederation on admitting, [67].
Channing, Edward, History of the United States, cited, [21] [(note)], [61] [(note)].
Cherronesus, [69].
Combe, George, Tour of the United States, quoted, [45].
Commerce, before Revolution, [24]; conditions after Revolution, [24]-[27]; commercial treaties, [26]; development of trade with Far East, [28]; phases of United States foreign trade, [28]-[29]; domestic trade, [29]-[30]; policy of reprisal, [97]-[99].
Committees of Correspondence, [49].
Confederation, the, [35] et seq., [108]; see also Articles of Confederation.
Congress, Continental, advises States to adopt governments, [38]; prints constitutions, [41]; Declaration of Independence, [49], [63], [143]-[144], [167]-[174]; Articles of Confederation, [49]-[50], [51], see also Articles of Confederation; Franklin’s plan of union, [50]-[51]; composition, [85]; financial problems, [85]-[86].
Congress, Federal, [52]-[53]; powers and duties, [53]-[54]; and Northwest Territory, [62]; national system of coinage, [63]-[64]; Land Ordinance (1785), [64]-[66], [71]; Jefferson’s Ordinance of 1784, [69]-[71], [75]; Ordinance of 1787, [72]-[80], [190]-[200]; inefficiency, [81]-[84], [127]; Revenue Amendment, [87]; financial crisis, [87]-[88]; commercial amendment of 1784, [98]-[99]; calls Federal Convention, [106]; reception of Constitution, [145]-[146]; votes that presidential electors be chosen (1788), [63].
Congress, United States, Constitutional powers and limitations, [127]-[129], [130], [131], [136]; objection to excessive power of, [161]; revenue act (1789), [159].
Connecticut, State government, [44]; ratification of Constitution, [149]-[150].
Constitution, development of, [108] et seq., [125] et seq.; great compromise of, [121]-[123], [127]; transmitted to Congress, [145]-[146]; contest over ratification, [146] et seq.; framed by propertied interests, [162]-[163]; text, [201]-[218]; bibliography, [221]-[222].
Cook, Captain James, [28].
Cornwallis, General Edward, surrender at Yorktown (1781), [5].
Crevècœur, letter to Jefferson, [165].
Cutler, Manasseh, [73]-[74].
D
Day, Clive, Encyclopedia of American Government, cited, [26] [(note)].
Declaration of Independence, adopted, [49]; Jefferson drafts, [63]; charges against the King, [143]-[144]; text, [167]-[174].
Delaware, and western land policy, [57]; Annapolis Trade Convention, [100]; ratification of Constitution, [149].
Dickerson, Senator, of New Jersey, quoted, [78].
Dickerson, John, chairman of committee to prepare Articles of Confederation, [49], [51], [114]; against centralized government, [114]; District of Columbia, fear of a fortified stronghold, [161].
Duer, Colonel William, [74].
Dunn, J. P., Jr., Indiana: A Redemption from Slavery, quoted, [71].
Dunning, W. A., The British Empire and the United States, cited, [13] [(note)].
E
Elliot’s Debates on the Federal Constitution, cited, [160] [(note)].
Ellsworth, Oliver, delegate to the Federal Convention, [115], [124]; on slavery, [130]; report on Rhode Island’s ratification of the Constitution, [159].
England, see Great Britain. Executive, see president.