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Title: Larned's history of the world : or, seventy centuries of the life of mankind
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larned, J. N. (Josephus Nelson), 1836-1913
Subjects: World history, Universal Civilization
Publisher: New York City : World Syndicate Company, Inc.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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w York on the 4thDec, 1783 of December, 1783, resigned his commission tocongress, at Annapolis, submitted a statement ofthe large expenditures he had made from hisprivate fortune on public account, exceeding#64,000, and declined all pay beyond the reim-bursement of that sum. On Christmas eve hereached his home at Mount Vernon, which hehad seen but once in eight years. Fiske, Critical Period The critical period of American history And now the United States entered on whatDr. Fiske has described correctly as being thecritical period of American history. TheStates were United only in name. They hadtaken their place among the nations withoutbeing a nation, in any right sense of the term.They had no government that could exercise anational authority or power. Their congressnationality could pledge nothing to any other governmentand guarantee that some or all of the Stateswould not repudiate its pledge. This barredthem from commercial treaties, to restore their in the United States r, &
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Adoption of American Federal Constitution 1019 ruined trade. They could not even establish freecommerce among themselves. They could buildup no public credit, by creating any method forthe payment of their general war debt. Therewas no money in the country to speak of, sincethe continental currency had sunk to utter 0f°thetI0Dworthlessness, and no agency existed, or could countryexist, in the circumstances, that would establisha monetary system.* The political and economicalsituation was one of chaos; and the prevailingpolitical ideas, for some years, were such asappeared to put anything better beyond hope.Experience under British rule had filled the mindsof the majority with a dread of strong govern-ment that was greater than their dread of any-thing else. Articles of Confederation, agreed Jj1*. fupon with slowness and difficulty during the war, Confedera-and not adopted until 1781, had been so mal-formed by that dread that no more than a feebleleague of friendship was contemplated

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