We are about the experience a year long celebration of our history from the DoI to situations of today and as a political historian I think it is essential that we look at that history and see where stuff went wrong and how we could avoid any further degradation of the system we have working today.

WE will look at our history by decade….it will be quicker and more simply understood for those that have a hard time keeping up….

Dividing history into decades is an arbitrary but sometimes very useful way of trying to understand the arcs and significance of events. Trying to identify any single event as crucial to the understanding of a given decade may be even more arbitrary. It is certainly subjective. Nevertheless, that attempt can at the very least be a catalyst for discussion. What follows is an attempt to identify decade-defining moments in the history of the United States since the country’s inception.

1770s: Declaration of Independence (1776)

The centrality of the Declaration of Independence (1776) to the developments of the 1770s is self-evident. From the Boston Tea Party to the “shot heard round the world,” Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River, and the Valley Forge winter, the American Revolution’s pursuit of liberty was made meaningful by the founding document of the great American experiment in democracy.

1780s: Constitution of the United States of America (1787)

With the war won, independence secured, and the Articles of Confederation proving inadequate, the Founding Fathers laid down the law by which the new country would be governed in the elegantly crafted Constitution, which, depending on one’s perspective, was meant either to evolve to meet changing circumstances or to be strictly interpreted to adhere to the Founders’ “original intent.”

1790s: Whiskey Rebellion (1794)

As the new country began finding its feet, U.S. President George Washington sent troops to western Pennsylvania in 1794 to quell the Whiskey Rebellion, an uprising by citizens who refused to pay a liquor tax that had been imposed by Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton to raise money for the national debt and to assert the power of the national government. Federalists cheered the triumph of national authority, while members of Thomas Jefferson’s Republican (later Democratic-Republican) Party were appalled by what they saw as government overreach. More than two centuries later, the names and faces have changed, but the story is ongoing.

Learn on!

https://www.britannica.com/story/25-decade-defining-events-in-us-history

That should give readers a working knowledge of our history and the difficulties we faced by decade….

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As we enter into the holiday weekend I hope everyone will rejoice with care and as always…..Be Well and Be Safe….

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