state debt after revolutionary war

Bureau of the Public Debt: Our History
Dec 22, 2011 . "The United States debt, foreign and domestic, was the price of liberty. . the Union of the States; to add to their security against foreign attack; . Our records show that debts incurred during the American Revolutionary War amounted to . The debt shrank briefly after the end of the Cold War, but by the end .
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/history/history.htm

CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: Lessons for Europe's Debt Crisis ...
Jan 20, 2012 . For an American, the obvious parallel involves borrowing by state and local . by assuming the debts of the states after the Revolutionary War.
http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2012/01/lessons-for-europes-debt-crisis-from.html

Tax History Project: The Revolutionary War to the War of 1812
The Articles, like most republican state constitutions written around this time, . encountered during and after the Revolutionary war, particularly with respect to . a number of states had decided to discharge some of the national debt on their .
http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/Web/THM1777?OpenDocument

Effects of the American Revolution: Post War Conditions in the ...
Jan 3, 2009 . Perhaps the greatest effect of the American Revolution was the acknowledgment . Finally, individual states maintained heavy debt loads while .
http://michael-streich.suite101.com/effects-of-the-american-revolution-a87997

Alexander Hamilton - The Civil War
Post Columbian Exploration . Overview of Revolutionary War . The State debts assumed amounted in the aggregate to $21000000, distributed as follows: .
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/patriots/alexander-hamilton.htm

The Economic Crisis of the 1780s [ushistory.org]
Finally, the high level of debt taken on by the states to fund the war effort added to . See how General Washington, after leading the American Revolution to a .
http://www.ushistory.org/us/14d.asp

U.S. History: American Revolutionary War Debt, war debts, federal ...
Dec 4, 2007 . war debts, federal goverment, american revolutionary war: The . The federal/ national government or the state governments? . Therefore, Congress agreed that the national government would assume war debts after the war.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/U-S-History-672/American-Revolutionary-War-Debt.htm

Creating a Nation « First in Peace
The Departments of State, War, and Treasury are established. . million in national debt and $25 million in state debt) inherited from the Revolutionary War. . Also patterned after the British financial system, the bank would serve as the primary .
http://www.firstinpeace.com/?page_id=176

BRIA 4 1 b Shays Rebellion: A Massachusetts Farmers Account ...
—George Washington, 1787 Shays' Rebellion erupted a few years after th. . Shays' Rebellion erupted a few years after the Revolutionary War when debt- ridden . Worse, the state legislature in Boston increased the property tax.
http://www.crf-usa.org/bill-of-rights-in-action/bria-4-1-b-shays-rebellion-a-massachusetts-farmers-account.html

Compromise of 1790 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The big issue stemmed from the accumulation of $54000000 of debt. . of state debts in return for a bill locating the US capital on the Potomac River after a ten . federal government to assume all of the state debts from the Revolutionary War.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compromise_of_1790

Results of the American Revolution
Following the American Revolution the founding fathers confronted a myriad of problem as . A debt of $70000000 lay upon the shoulders of a wasted people, besides the promises of . They asked the several States to vest that body with power to levy, for the term of . For three years the proposition was before the people.
http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Our_Country_vol_2/resultsof_bej.html

EU: An Articles of Confederation Moment?
Oct 6, 2011 . Mr. Chernow's chapter on how Mr. Hamilton handled the federal government's assumption of state debt after the revolutionary war is getting .
http://www.lawanddemocracy.org/pdffiles/articlesofconfed.short.pdf

US Federal Debt by Year - Charts Tables History
Charts and analysis of the US Federal Debt, including current debt, 20th . It breached 30 percent of GDP after the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World . State: Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the US, Colonial Times to 1970 .
http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/

Lessons for Europe's Fiscal Union from US Federalism « naked ...
Jan 25, 2012 . The problem with Hamilton was not his desire for debt. All of the states had debt after the Revolutionary War – something I think everyone can .
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/01/lessons-for-europe%E2%80%99s-fiscal-union-from-us-federalism.html

What We Can Learn from Hamilton & Another “Bail Out”
Oct 12, 2008 . Immediately following the American Revolution, the fledgling United States, . Specifically, in addition to massive national war debt, each state .
http://hnn.us/articles/55553.html

Definition of Debt Assumption | eHow.com
It is when a third party takes upon itself another person or enterprise's debt. . federal government to assume the debt of each state after the War of Independence. . There was a general feeling in Congress that the Revolutionary War was the .
http://www.ehow.com/about_6109591_definition-debt-assumption.html

When did the US pay its Revolutionary War debt to France
How did this small state large state compromise guard against tyranny? Answer it ! . How did the US pay off debt after the revolutionary war? Mainly they taxed .
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_the_US_pay_its_Revolutionary_War_debt_to_France

The Constitution of the United States of America
After the states won independence in the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), they . The states had to enforce law and order, collect taxes, pay a large public debt, .
http://www.policyalmanac.org/government/archive/constitution.shtml

Hamilton's Financial Plan [ushistory.org]
Societal Impacts of the American Revolution, a. The Impact of . A sawbuck says you'll know the answer after reading this piece. . States had huge war debts.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/18b.asp