Posts by Marc Liebman
The American Revolution Starts Another Trend
In the 18th Century, women second-class citizens, and few, other than those from wealthy families, went to school. There they learned to read and write and do what was then known as “sums,” i.e., add and subtract.
Read MoreStart of a Trans-Atlantic Migration
So, again going back to U.S. Census data, the first census tallies the population at 3,929,214 in 1790, seven years after the American Revolution ended, the population of the new country grew by 1.7 million people. From that point on, the U.S. population grew by more than 30% every 10 years.
Read MoreBeginning of the End of Slavery in These United States
However, in 1794, 71 years before the 13th Amendment was passed, with the Slave Trade Act of 1794, the U.S. Congress took the first steps to eliminate slavery in the U.S. The law, passed by the Second U.S. Congress, was signed by President Washington on March 22nd, 1794.
Read MoreThe Precedent Setting Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Four years after the peace treaty with Great Britain was signed, the Continental Congress, which now preferred to be known as the Congress of the Confederation of the United States, passed the Northwest Ordnance on July 13th, 1787. It was intended to provide guidance to citizens on how a section of the new United States known as the Northwest Territory would be governed.
Read MoreJim Blythe’s Veteran’s Impact Show
Marc talks Insidious Dragon, his third book about counter terrorism that will be released in late August or September and what he learned researching his Age of Sail series. Watch…
Read MoreCauses of the American Revolution and the U.S. Today
By April 1775, the Patriots were fed up with the British government. It simply wasn’t responsive or caring of its needs. Call it arrogance, call it ignorance, but there is no doubt that English citizens living on their island looked down on their fellow citizens living in the Thirteen Colonies. The Founding Fathers were often referred to as “damn Colonials.”
Read MoreCauses of the U.S.’s Second Struggle for Liberty
Relations with the U.K. in the first decade of the 19th Century ranged from tense to contentious. On this side of the Atlantic, war was inevitable.
Read MoreLoyalist NEO
Throughout the American Revolution, Great Britain told Loyalists that they would be re-settled in a British colony should England lose and you wanted to leave.
Read MorePatents and One’s Sex
Depending on one’s station in life, marriages were often arranged to create an alliance with another country, for business or economic reasons, or to improve a family’s position in society. Ugly as it sounds, women were considered “property.” In the 21st Century, that sounds incredible, and some women will tell you even today, the fight for equal rights/pay/recognition, etc., still goes on.
Read MoreFulton’s Folly Changed Transportation and Interstate Commerce Forever
Clarmont, dubbed by some as Fulton’s Folly, was a small ship, even by the standards of the early 19th Century. It was only 142 feet long, with a beam of 18 feet, and displaced 121 tons. Clarmont was about the size of a small sailing frigate. The big difference was that it only had two small masts for sails since its four-foot wide and 15-foot diameter paddle wheels powered by a 19-horsepower steam engine built by the English firm of Boulton & Watt pushed the boat through the water.
Read More