A subject never mentioned by name in the U.S. Constitution, and kept taboo until two groups of Quakers demanded it be discussed in 1790
What is slavery?
100
this is what Ellis depicts Adams and Jefferson as
What are olympian gods?
100
Alexander Hamilton's plan to restore U.S. financial credit abroad by having the federal government assume the wartime debt of the various states
What is Assumption?
100
being born illigetimate and without nobilty and Aaron Burr being born of high status is an example of this
What is the snobbery of the high class in the revolutionary generation?
200
wanted to base the new nation on commerce
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
200
The Adams-Jefferson correspondence in particular raises the question
What is history, should it be written as experienced or remembered?
200
this is Ellis form of storytelling
What is circular?
200
The secretive gathering in Philadelphia, PA in 1787, intended to address serious problems that arose in the U.S. following its successful war of independence from Britain
What is the Constitutional Convention?
200
he signed the anti-slavery petition of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society in 1790, effectively forcing the House of Representatives to take up the question
Who is Franklin?
300
emerged as a leader in opposition to the Stamp Act of 1765
Who is John Adams?
300
that the inalienable human rights had to be defended to the death — marking the Spirit of '76
What is idealogy?
300
this is the style that Ellis writes the book
What is a frame story?
300
The body that governed the British thirteen colonies and independent United States during the revolutionary period, 1774-89
What is the Continental Congress?
300
he helped Adams and Jefferson to reconcile through letters
What is Benajamin Rush?
400
wanted an agrarian nation of yeoman farmers
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
Members of the founding generation of the U.S. valued this above all, but most proved capable of compromising it in order to achieve a greater good
What is honesty?
400
Ellis uses these to help support his findings
What are footnotes?
400
The debate over where the permanent U.S. capital should be located — a question left to Congress in the Constitution
What is residency or southern vs northern?
400
Hamilton manipulated holdovers from the Washington cabinet
What is split — and destruction of the Federalist Party?
500
born into Virginia's slave-owning elite, served with distinction in the French and Indian War, and in 1774, was selected to represent Virginia at the first Continental Congress
Who is George Washington?
500
examples of this are Burr's and Hamilton's duel and Adams and Jefferson's fued
What is the abiltiy or inabilty to forgive?
500
written by a respected scholar of the revolutionary era who knows from classroom experience the misconceptions that have attached to this period
What is point of view?
500
Franklin's last writing which sought to cast new light on the morality of slavery by showing how Muslims justified enslaving Christians
What is "Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim on the Slave Trade"?
500
Abigail's advice failed John only once, when she advocated for this