Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (139 page)

and public opinion,
188
,
309

and reelection,
682
–83

and republicanism,
146
–47

and slavery,
517
,
525
,
530
–31,
541
,
734
,
738

and social changes,
702

and social justice,
407

and Spanish territories,
366

and state legislatures,
17
,
18
,
269

and strict construction of the Constitution,
485

and trade disputes,
664
–70

and virtue of citizens,
9

and the War of 1812,
659
,
662
,
666
–67,
673
–74,
676
,
679
,
682
–83,
689
,
691
,
694
–95,
697
–99

and warfare,
196

and Washington,
158
,
206

and western settlement,
114

and the XYZ Affair,
242
–43

Madison, James (Madison’s cousin),
395

magazines,
478

magisterial authority,
410
–18,
453

Magna Carta,
66
,
444
,
584

mail service,
86
,
293
,
478
–79

Maine,
341
,
481
,
653
,
695

majority rule,
31

“Malcontents,”
426

mammoths,
393

Mandan Indians,
378
,
379
,
380

Manhattan Company,
282

Mann, Herman,
506

Manning, William,
351
–53,
594
,
614

Mansfield, William Murray, Earl of,
406
,
448
,
449
–50,
457

manufacturing,
100
–103,
324
,
627
,
702
–6,
708
,
714

manumission,
373
,
522
,
523
,
526
,
538

Marbury v. Madison
,
440
–42,
449
,
458

Marie Antoinette, Queen, consort of Louis XVI,
176

maritime law,
642
–43,
659
,
661
.
See also
impressment of seamen; neutral shipping rights

Marius Musing amid the Ruins of Carthage
(Vanderlyn),
565

market economics,
320
–24,
324
n23,
353

market integration,
323

Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of,
73

marriage,
496
–97

Mars Works,
729

Marshall, John: background,
433
–36

and Burr trial,
385

and corporate charters,
463
,
465
–66

and the 1800 election,
278

and the federal judiciary,
419

and the French Revolution,
174
,
175

and governmental power,
455

and impeachment trials,
423
–24

and judicial review,
436
–40,
449
–50,
457
,
458
–59

and
Marbury v. Madison
,
440
–42

Morris on,
425

and the Non-Intercourse Act,
666

Washington biography,
565
–66

and the XYZ Affair,
242

Marshall, Thomas,
433

Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
,
455
–56

Martinique,
367

Maryland: and agriculture,
165

and bar standards,
454

and bills of rights,
67

and the 1800 election,
283

and freed slaves,
538

and Madison’s reelection,
683

and presidential elections,
212

and ratification of the Constitution,
97

and religion,
583
,
591

and slavery,
165
,
511
,
518
,
522
,
524
,
526

and state debts,
141

and suffrage expansions,
302

Mason, George: and Anti-Federalists,
35

and the Bill of Rights,
66
,
71

and executive powers,
74
–75

and nullification,
446

on Philadelphia,
143

and slavery,
231

and women’s rights,
507

Mason, Priscilla,
505
–6

Mason-Dixon Line,
164

Masonry.
See
Freemasonry

Massachusetts: and banking,
296

and the Bill of Rights,
72

and corporate charters,
462
,
464

demographics of,
341

and education,
471

and the Embargo Act,
655
,
656
–57

and the First Congress,
57

and party politics,
307

and penal reform,
493
,
494

and public authority,
467

and public education,
474

and racism,
542

and religion,
579
,
583
,
591
,
594

and slavery,
520

and state debts,
141

and state judiciary,
431

and trade disputes,
668
,
669

and the War of 1812,
677

Massachusetts Bay Colony,
460

Massachusetts Historical Society,
477

Massachusetts Humane Society,
487

Massachusetts
magazine,
553

Massachusetts Missionary Magazine
,
604

Massachusetts Missionary Society,
490
–91

Massachusetts Peace Society,
696

Massachusetts Superior Court,
520

mastodons,
393

materialism,
354
–55,
356
,
619

Mather, Moses,
406
–7

Maxey, Jonathan,
343

Mayhew, Jonathan,
11
–12

Mazzei, Philip,
235
,
332

McCulloch v. Maryland
,
455

McGillivray, Alexander,
128

McGready, James,
611

McHenry, James,
75
,
234
,
240
,
273

McKean, Thomas,
219
,
222
,
256
–57,
314
,
412
,
428
–29,
671

McLean, John,
431
–32

McNemar, Richard,
596

Mease, James,
726
–27

media,
475
–76,
603
.
See also
newspapers

press

specific publications

medicine,
723
,
725
–27

The Medium
(play),
501

Megalonyx,
393

Melish, John,
712

melodramas,
571

mercantilism,
15
,
101
,
625
–26,
707

merchant marine,
642
,
682
,
688
–89

Merrick, Pliny,
721
–22

Merry, Anthony,
288

Methodist Episcopal Church,
605
–6

Methodists: and class divisions,
613

and democratization of religion,
608

and Dow,
610

and freed blacks,
521

and growth of congregations,
337
,
581
–82,
604

and millennial beliefs,
618

and the Republican Party,
244

and revivalism,
595
–601,
605

and slavery,
535
,
536
,
538
,
599
–600

Mexico,
113
,
367
,
384

Miami Indians,
129

Michaux, André,
186
,
376

Michigan Territory,
359
,
363
,
674
,
679
,
686
,
701

Mid-Atlantic States,
170

middle class,
27
–31,
355
–56

Middle Tennessee,
361

Middlesex Canal,
484

“midnight judges,”
419
,
440

Mifflin, Thomas,
245

Milan Decree,
646

military dictatorships,
8

Military Peace Establishment Act,
292

military power: and the Barbary Wars,
636

and the Federalist Party,
262
–67

and the French
Revolution,
620
–21

and Fulton,
631
–32

and international commerce,
195

and military spending,
292

National Anthem,
692

and Shays’s Rebellion,
111

and the War of 1812,
671
–72,
674
.
See also
naval power and conflicts; standing armies

militias,
293
,
644
,
672
,
680
,
693

Millar, John,
42

millennial beliefs,
582
,
616
–19

Miller, Samuel,
258
,
562
,
608

Mingo Indians,
123

minority groups,
31
,
167
,
468
.
See also
immigration

racial issues

Minot, George,
60

mint,
99
.
See also
monetary policy

Miranda, Francisco de,
265

miscegenation,
395
n88,
514

missionaries,
490
–91,
617

Mississippi River: and the Louisiana Purchase,
369

and territorial disputes,
113

and trade and commerce,
15

and the Treaty of San Lorenzo,
201
,
366
,
367

and the War of 1812,
695
,
696

Mississippi Territory: and Claiborne,
372
–73

and the Embargo Act,
655
–56

and embargoes,
655
–56

and Native Americans,
128
,
686

and slavery,
522
,
528
–30

and territory status,
701

and the Treaty of Paris,
112

and the War of 1812,
686

and western settlement,
359

Missouri crisis,
526
,
737

Missouri River,
376
,
379

Missouri Territory,
701

Mitchill, Samuel L.: and commerce,
322
,
325

on distilling,
339

and expansionism,
375

and medicine,
725

and national identity,
41

and race issues,
540

on suicide rates,
335

and urban renewal,
390

Mobile, Alabama,
376
,
656
,
696

Mobile Act,
374

mobilization, political,
282
,
306

model treaty,
191
,
272

Modern Chivalry
(Brackenridge),
220

monarchical power: and Adams,
215
–16

and American cultural independence,
737

and class divisions,
31