American history

American history

Contributors in American history

American history

These were opponents of the Constitution of 1787 who sought to continue the confederation of sovereign states and to keep power as close as possible to the people. In actuality, the Antifederalists ...

Aaron Burr

History; American history

Thomas Jefferson's first vice president, who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804.

American System of Production

History; American history

The high cost of labour led to the establishment of a system of mass production through the manufacture of interchangeable parts.

American System (of Henry Clay)

History; American history

Henry Clay's programme for the national economy, which included a protective tariff to stimulate industry, a national bank to provide credit, and federally funded internal improvements to expand the ...

American Federation of labour

History; American history

A confederation of labour unions founded in 1886, it was composed mainly of skilled craft unions and was the first national labour organisation to survive and experience a degree of success, largely ...

American Exceptionalism

History; American history

Notion that America houses biologically superior people and can spread democracy to the rest of the world. An intellectual foundation of expansion and racism in the late nineteenth and early ...

Allies

History; American history

In World War I, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia, the alliance that opposed and defeated the Central Powers of Germany and Austria Hungary and their allies; in World War II, ...