The sovereign powers are divided between the national and state governments in the United States. This federal framework was adopted by the framers of the US Constitution for the benefits they saw in the system. […]
The United States has a federal government. There is the national government made up of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and there are 50 sub-national governments, one in each state. […]
To correctly identify the Founders of the American republic, we must consider the people who established the republic and successfully administered the new nation. […]
The state of the economy immediately after the Revolution and the failure of the states to work together in the new nation forced Washington to question the republican experiment in America. This was not the republic that he had dreamt of. […]
Even though some believe that the Constitution has outlasted its usefulness, it’s a fact that it still plays an important role in the American society. […]
Andrew Jackson had little experience as a statesman in comparison to his competitors, John Quincy Adams, William H. Crawford, and Henry Clay. Yet, he swept the popular and electoral vote of the 1824 election. […]
The presidential election of 1824 was significant because it marked the beginning of the end of the caucus system and the development of a new two-party system in America. The collapse of the Federalists resulted in all the contenders being Republicans. […]
We would do well to keep in mind that much of what we imagine as new might have been thought of as next by Indigenous contemporaries. After all, Native communities were already practiced in the arts of dealing with people unlike themselves, the exchange of material and nonmaterial things across vast trade networks, and the making of innovations to their ways of life. […]
The Old World/New World binary is the stepping off point for America’s master narrative, and through it all, it’s the Old World that transforms the new one. However, Native people are the ones being defeated in this narrative. They are the ones in retreat. They are being changed forever. […]
Black people across the South got freedom from their bondage during the Civil War. However, they had to face many more difficulties, and many of them succumbed to illness in contraband camps. […]
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