History 270: The United States to 1865
Spring Semester 1999 - Dr. Thomas R. Maddux
Lecture Outline
A Conservative Counter-Coup?

  1. Effects of the Revolution
    1. Status of women and Mary Silliman
    2. Slavery
      1. "Liberty, equality, and slavery?"
      2. impact of revolution on individuals and state level
      3. Confederation and slavery
  2. REpublican Crisis?
    1. Wartime Problems and "Young Men of the Revolution"
    2. Internal Crisis and George Washington
    3. External Crisis
  3. Constitution (Faragher, Appendix A, 5 pages)
    1. Shift nature of republicanism
      1. Strengthen central govt.
      2. Chacks and balances to control power
      3. filter the popular will
    2. Slavery and the Constitution
    3. Slavery and the "Young Men"


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