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Authors: Gordon S. Wood
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (139 page)
and public opinion,
188
,
309
and reelection,
682
–83
and republicanism,
146
–47
and slavery,
517
,
525
,
530
–31,
541
,
734
,
738
and social changes,
702
and social justice,
407
and Spanish territories,
366
and state legislatures,
17
,
18
,
269
and strict construction of the Constitution,
485
and trade disputes,
664
–70
and virtue of citizens,
9
and the War of 1812,
659
,
662
,
666
–67,
673
–74,
676
,
679
,
682
–83,
689
,
691
,
694
–95,
697
–99
and warfare,
196
and Washington,
158
,
206
and western settlement,
114
and the XYZ Affair,
242
–43
Madison, James (Madison’s cousin),
395
magazines,
478
magisterial authority,
410
–18,
453
majority rule,
31
“Malcontents,”
426
mammoths,
393
Manhattan Company,
282
Mann, Herman,
506
Manning, William,
351
–53,
594
,
614
Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of,
406
,
448
,
449
–50,
457
manufacturing,
100
–103,
324
,
627
,
702
–6,
708
,
714
manumission,
373
,
522
,
523
,
526
,
538
Marbury v. Madison
,
440
–42,
449
,
458
Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI,
176
maritime law,
642
–43,
659
,
661
.
See also
impressment of seamen; neutral shipping rights
Marius Musing amid the Ruins of Carthage
(Vanderlyn),
565
market economics,
320
–24,
324
n23,
353
market integration,
323
Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of,
73
marriage,
496
–97
Mars Works,
729
Marshall, John: background,
433
–36
and Burr trial,
385
and corporate charters,
463
,
465
–66
and the 1800 election,
278
and the federal judiciary,
419
and the French Revolution,
174
,
175
and governmental power,
455
and impeachment trials,
423
–24
and judicial review,
436
–40,
449
–50,
457
,
458
–59
and
Marbury v. Madison
,
440
–42
Morris on,
425
and the Non-Intercourse Act,
666
Washington biography,
565
–66
and the XYZ Affair,
242
Marshall, Thomas,
433
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
,
455
–56
Martinique,
367
Maryland: and agriculture,
165
and bar standards,
454
and bills of rights,
67
and the 1800 election,
283
and freed slaves,
538
and Madison’s reelection,
683
and presidential elections,
212
and ratification of the Constitution,
97
and religion,
583
,
591
and slavery,
165
,
511
,
518
,
522
,
524
,
526
and state debts,
141
and suffrage expansions,
302
Mason, George: and Anti-Federalists,
35
and the Bill of Rights,
66
,
71
and executive powers,
74
–75
and nullification,
446
on Philadelphia,
143
and slavery,
231
and women’s rights,
507
Mason, Priscilla,
505
–6
Mason-Dixon Line,
164
Masonry.
See
Freemasonry
Massachusetts: and banking,
296
and the Bill of Rights,
72
and corporate charters,
462
,
464
demographics of,
341
and education,
471
and the Embargo Act,
655
,
656
–57
and the First Congress,
57
and party politics,
307
and penal reform,
493
,
494
and public authority,
467
and public education,
474
and racism,
542
and religion,
579
,
583
,
591
,
594
and slavery,
520
and state debts,
141
and state judiciary,
431
and trade disputes,
668
,
669
and the War of 1812,
677
Massachusetts Bay Colony,
460
Massachusetts Historical Society,
477
Massachusetts Humane Society,
487
Massachusetts
magazine,
553
Massachusetts Missionary Magazine
,
604
Massachusetts Missionary Society,
490
–91
Massachusetts Peace Society,
696
Massachusetts Superior Court,
520
mastodons,
393
Mather, Moses,
406
–7
Maxey, Jonathan,
343
Mayhew, Jonathan,
11
–12
McCulloch v. Maryland
,
455
McGillivray, Alexander,
128
McGready, James,
611
McKean, Thomas,
219
,
222
,
256
–57,
314
,
412
,
428
–29,
671
McLean, John,
431
–32
McNemar, Richard,
596
Mease, James,
726
–27
media,
475
–76,
603
.
See also
newspapers
press
specific publications
The Medium
(play),
501
Megalonyx,
393
Melish, John,
712
melodramas,
571
mercantilism,
15
,
101
,
625
–26,
707
merchant marine,
642
,
682
,
688
–89
Merrick, Pliny,
721
–22
Merry, Anthony,
288
Methodist Episcopal Church,
605
–6
Methodists: and class divisions,
613
and democratization of religion,
608
and Dow,
610
and freed blacks,
521
and growth of congregations,
337
,
581
–82,
604
and millennial beliefs,
618
and the Republican Party,
244
and revivalism,
595
–601,
605
and slavery,
535
,
536
,
538
,
599
–600
Miami Indians,
129
Michigan Territory,
359
,
363
,
674
,
679
,
686
,
701
Mid-Atlantic States,
170
Middle Tennessee,
361
Middlesex Canal,
484
Mifflin, Thomas,
245
Milan Decree,
646
military dictatorships,
8
Military Peace Establishment Act,
292
military power: and the Barbary Wars,
636
and the Federalist Party,
262
–67
and the French
Revolution,
620
–21
and Fulton,
631
–32
and international commerce,
195
and military spending,
292
National Anthem,
692
and Shays’s Rebellion,
111
and the War of 1812,
671
–72,
674
.
See also
naval power and conflicts; standing armies
Millar, John,
42
Mingo Indians,
123
minority groups,
31
,
167
,
468
.
See also
immigration
racial issues
Minot, George,
60
mint,
99
.
See also
monetary policy
Miranda, Francisco de,
265
Mississippi River: and the Louisiana Purchase,
369
and territorial disputes,
113
and trade and commerce,
15
and the Treaty of San Lorenzo,
201
,
366
,
367
and the War of 1812,
695
,
696
Mississippi Territory: and Claiborne,
372
–73
and the Embargo Act,
655
–56
and embargoes,
655
–56
and Native Americans,
128
,
686
and slavery,
522
,
528
–30
and territory status,
701
and the Treaty of Paris,
112
and the War of 1812,
686
and western settlement,
359
Missouri Territory,
701
Mitchill, Samuel L.: and commerce,
322
,
325
on distilling,
339
and expansionism,
375
and medicine,
725
and national identity,
41
and race issues,
540
on suicide rates,
335
and urban renewal,
390
Mobile Act,
374
mobilization, political,
282
,
306
Modern Chivalry
(Brackenridge),
220
monarchical power: and Adams,
215
–16
and American cultural independence,
737
and class divisions,
31
