From continued conflict in the southeast so that the nations army could instead focus its energies on subduing the Indian Tribes of the ohio river, north of the ohio river in an effort to expand the nations borders further west. Now, this treaty that was negotiated in 1790, the treaty of new york, it was celebrated by many, Many Americans, most americans thought this was a very good idea. But there were some who didnt. And many of those who did not agree with it were georgiaens. Particularly those men who lived in this area in the appalachians. Now, you remember we talked about the proclamation of 1763 which had drawn the line down the Appalachian Mountains and mandated that settlers could not move to the western side of the appalachians. Well, some of the folks who were most in favor of creating a new nation so they could push west of the appalachians were indeed these same farmers from georgia. Now, in exchange for peace, president washington had given up claims to land that were inc
1760s would no longer be allowed in the United States. What we see is a change. Now i would like to talk a bit about the transoconee republic and the transoconee republic is something dear to my heart. This is something i ran across when i was writing my book on georgia. It was this episode i had never heard of. It involved a revolutionary hero. Much like we heard with mcfarland who decided he had enough of his country and was going to start his own country shortly after the nation had just begun and this startled me. This left me scratching my head. I had to dig deeper. What i uncovered was this amazing story. Like the whiskey rebellion, the disagreement that led to the creation of the transoconee republic in 1794, the disagreement predated its actual emergence. It wasnt suddenly in 1794 the men decided thats enough and were going to do something about it. Instead, the origins of this disagreement between the federal government and these men from western georgia whats interesting here
Differences, what we read for today is its clearly not the case. What we see is in the 1790s, many of the divisions, many of the concerns that people who viewed the constitution in these folks came to see this still as a problem in the 1790s. The ratification of the constitution did not do away with these divisions. Instead they continued to manifest themselves. And we can see them manifest themselves in a variety of ways. Were going to talk about three ways today that are two clear examples. Examples that highlight the ways in which certain individuals, american citizens decided that they were going to rebel against the constitution and the federal government. In the 1790s we see two examples where rebels decided perhaps they decide to try to form their own more perfect union, their own country. One of these events takes place, or both of them take place in 1794. The first of them that were going to discuss is the whiskey rebellion, which takes place in 1794 in pennsylvania. As well d
Haunt them. Instead of protecting them against the indians, it was enabling the federal governments to prevented them from coming on to indian lands. It seemed to be they had made a bad bargain. They were quite alarmed at what had taken place. Of all the georgians it was the residents of the back country who were most upset at the treaty of new york and the federal governments actions. They lashed out at the decision and even began to question whether they wanted to remain citizens of a nation that they felt had abandoned them in their time of need. Thousands of settlers chose to ignore the terms of treaty and poured across the boundary, across the oconee river to the creek indians land. This prompted creek warriors to attack. And the result was frequent bloodshed and violence as the two groups launched raid after raid after counterraid. As growing numbers of settlers suffered at the hands of creek warriors, the settlers looked to the federal government for protection but none was fort
The war. It was what they experienced. Marshal was a virginian. He was a bit of a backwoods virginian, but he fought in a number of the battles in new jersey. But he became part of something that was a lot bigger than virginia. And he got to know people from many different states, many different backgrounds, and it changed, it changed him and he began to think of the United States as his country. Not virginia. And he became to think of the government as the government of the United States, not the government of virginia. And of course, this gets revisited in the american civil war. This is exactly whats happening. The secession begins. These states are asserting the rights that they retained when they voluntarily became a part of the federal union. The view of lincoln was thats not true. You cant leave. Youre in it, you stay in it. But its primarily over the belief of the Southern States that they were the primary unit. They had given certain things to the federal government, but they