Research Catalog

Title

Founding fathers : the essential guide to the men who made America.

Publication

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2007.

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Details

Description

xi, 259 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.

Summary

Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on the Founding Fathers, their actions, and their intentions in writing the U.S. Constitution.

Uniform Title

Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Subjects

• Dictionnaires
• Dictionaries
• History
• Biographies
• dictionaries
• Geschichte
• 1775-1815
• American Revolution > (United States : > 1775-1783)
• United States > Politics and government > 1783-1809 > Dictionaries
• United States > Politics and government > 1775-1783 > Dictionaries
• United States > History > 1783-1815 > Biography > Dictionaries
• United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography > Dictionaries
• Politicians > United States > Biography > Dictionaries
• Statesmen > United States > Biography > Dictionaries

Genre/Form

• dictionaries.
• Biographies
• Dictionaries
• History
• Dictionnaires.

Note

• "Encyclopædia Britannica."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-258).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Adams, Abigail -- Adams, John -- Adams, Samuel -- Alien and sedition acts -- American Revolution -- Articles of Confederation -- Bill of Rights -- Blair, John -- Burr, Aaron -- Carroll, Charles -- Chase, Samuel -- Checks and balances -- Clark, Abraham -- Constitution of the United States of America -- Continental Congress -- Dayton, Jonathan -- Declaration of Independence -- Closer look: The founding fathers and slavery / Anthony Iaccarino -- Democratic-Republican party -- Dickinson, John -- Federalist Papers -- Federalist party -- Franklin, Benjamin -- French and Indian War -- Gerry, Elbridge -- Gwinnett, Button -- Hale, Nathan -- Hamilton, Alexander -- Hancock, John -- Henry, Patrick -- Hopkinson, Francis -- Intolerable Acts -- Jay, John -- Jay Treaty -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Closer look: The Jefferson-Hemings paternity debate / Joseph J. Ellis -- King, Rufus -- Lee, Richard Henry -- Livingston, Robert R. -- Louisiana Purchase -- Madison, Dolley -- Madison, James -- Marshall, John -- Mason, George -- Middleton, Arthur -- Monroe, James -- Morris, Gouverneur -- Morris, Robert -- Paine, Robert Treat -- Paine, Thomas -- Closer look: The founding fathers, deism, and Christianity / David L. Holmes -- Paris, Treaty of -- Paterson, William -- Pinckney, Charles -- Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth -- Rodney, Caesar -- Rush, Benjamin -- Rutledge, John -- Separation of powers -- Shays's Rebellion -- Sherman, Roger -- Stamp Act -- Townshend Acts -- Washington, George -- Closer look: The presidency of the United States of America / Forrest McDonald -- Whiskey Rebellion -- Wilson, James -- Witherspoon, John -- Wolcott, Oliver -- Wythe, George.

ISBN

• 9780470117927 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
• 0470117923 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2007006001

OCLC

• 85443931
• SCSB-10656161

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library