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History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940
Author | : Edward Potts Cheyney |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 081220879X |
Following his retirement from teaching in 1934, Edward Potts Cheyney was invited by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania to write a history of the University in celebration of its bicentennial. Cheyney completed the project, published as the present work, in 1940. This, then, is his history of the University of Pennsylvania from its founding to its bicentennial anniversary.
The Bicentennial of the United States of America
Author | : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1776-1976 |
ISBN | : |
The Bicentennial of the United States of America
Author | : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 |
ISBN | : |
History of the George Washington Bicentennial Celebration ...
Author | : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 1932 |
Genre | : |
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History of Higher Education Annual
Author | : Roger Geiger |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781412825351 |
Fries's Rebellion
Author | : Paul Douglas Newman |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812200985 |
In 1798, the federal government levied its first direct tax on American citizens, one that seemed to favor land speculators over farmers. In eastern Pennsylvania, the tax assessors were largely Quakers and Moravians who had abstained from Revolutionary participation and were recruited by the administration of John Adams to levy taxes against their patriot German Reformed and Lutheran neighbors. Led by local Revolutionary hero John Fries, the farmers drew on the rituals of crowd action and stopped the assessment. Following the Shays and Whiskey rebellions, Fries's Rebellion was the last in a trilogy of popular uprisings against federal authority in the early republic. But in contrast to the previous armed insurrections, the Fries rebels used nonviolent methods while simultaneously exercising their rights to petition Congress for the repeal of the tax law as well as the Alien and Sedition Acts. In doing so, they sought to manifest the principle of popular sovereignty and to expand the role of local people within the emerging national political system rather than attacking it from without. After some resisters were liberated from the custody of a federal marshal, the Adams administration used military force to suppress the insurrection. The resisters were charged with sedition and treason. Fries himself was sentenced to death but was pardoned at the eleventh hour by President Adams. The pardon fractured the presidential cabinet and splintered the party, just before Thomas Jefferson's and the Republican Party's "Revolution of 1800." The first book-length treatment of this significant eighteenth-century uprising, Fries's Rebellion shows us that the participants of the rebellion reengaged Revolutionary ideals in an enduring struggle to further democratize their country.
Project 1776
Author | : Bicentennial Commission of Pennsylvania |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976 |
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