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Question: I need a topic for a 10 page college term paper on early US history!.!.!. Any Ideas!?!?!? !?
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Alexander Hamilton's financial program!. not the most interesting, but gobs of information!. You can discuss the plan itself: the tariff, B!.U!.S!., his handling of old war bonds, the assumption of state debts, the excise tax on whiskey!. you can then explain the attitudes of the federalists toward it and how the program itself contributed to the rise of the republican party!. You can also talk about how it hurt/benefitted each region of the country!.

Another good topic is to discuss whether the main causes of the revolutionary war were social or economic, tons of laws and occurances (like the boston massacre) involved with that!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Freemasonry and the founding fathers, is a good one!. "Some of the greatest names of the American Revolution were Masons: Ethan Alien, Edmund Burke, John Claypoole, William Daws, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, John Paul Jones, Robert Livingston, Paul Revere, Colonel Benjamin Tupper, and George Washington!. Of the 56 signers of The Declaration of Independence, eight were known Masons and seven others exhibited strong evidence of Masonic membership!. Of the forty signers of the Constitution, nine were known Masons, 13 exhibited evidence of Masonic membership, and six more later became Masons!.

"There were many other Masonic influences in early American history: (1) Lafayette, the French liaison to the Colonies, without whose aid the war could not have been won, was a Freemason; (2) the majority of the commanders of the Continental Army were Freemasons and members of "Army Lodges"; (3) most of George Washington's generals were Freemasons; the Boston Tea Party was planned at the Green Dragon Tavern, also known as the "Freemasons' Arms" and "the Headquarters of the Revolution"; (4) George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States by Robert Livingston, Grand Master of New York's Masonic lodge, and the Bible on which he took his oath was from his own Masonic lodge; and (5) the Cornerstone of the Capital Building was laid by the Grand Lodge of Maryland!." (2)

"On 18 September 1793, the cornerstone of the Capitol was officially laid!. Grand Lodge of Maryland presided over the ceremony and Washington was asked to serve as Master!.!.!. Subsequently, the Capitol and the White House were each to become focal points of an elaborate geometry governing the layout of the nation's capital city!. This geometry, originally devised by an architect named Pierre l'Enfant, was subsequently modified by Washington and Jefferson so as to produce specifically octagonal patterns incorporation the particular cross used as a device by Masonic Templars!." (10)

Richard Harwell noted the Masonic funeral of George Washington in 1799:
"When word came that the Freemasons and the military would attend the funeral in a body, Lear began to arrange for the hospitality that would be expected!."



BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THOMAS PAINE, THOMAS JEFFERSON, GEORGE WASHINGTON, William Ellery, John Hancock, Joseph Hewes, William Hooper, Robert Paine, Richard Stockton, George Walton and William Whipple!. Freemasons & the U!.S!. Constitution, signers, Gunning Bedford, Jr, John Blair, David Brearley, Jacob Broom, Daniel Carroll, Jonathan Dayton, John Dickinson, Nicholas Gilman, Rufus King, James McHenry, William Paterson!.

Generals of the Continental Army, under George Washington
Generals; Benedict Arnold, James Clinton, Elias Dayton, Joseph Frye, Mordecai Gist, John Glover, John Greaton, Edward Hand, James Hogun, Henry Knox, Marquis de LaFayette of France, Benjamin Lincoln, William Maxwell, Hugh Mercer, Richard Montgomery, Peter Muhlenberg, John Nixon, Samuel H!. Parsons, John Paterson, Israel Putnam, Rufus Putnam, Arthur St!. Clair, John Stark, Frederick W!.A!. von Steuben from Prussia, Lord (Alexander) Stirling, John Sullivan, Jethro Sumner, William Thompson, James M!. Varnum, George Weedon, Otho H!. Williams, William Woodford, and David Wooster!.Www@QuestionHome@Com