Chapter 8: Concepts

Plantation owner (with slaves of course), George Washington, believed to have let his people down and accomplish some objectives. The Farewell Address, delivered by George Washington in 1796, had been prepared by James Madison before Washington's retirement in the second term of being president. The article focused on the "people of the United States", and presented his long-term service during the French and Indian War up unto the Declaration of Independence. The writing highlights the importance of unity, the threat within politics, religion, and his own failures to the public. He convinces the Americans to be wary of foreign influence in the states and the falsification of patriotism. During the publishing of the document, the precursor to the American Revolution for independence, emerged by the Great Awakening. The Tennent family of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, most notably Gilbert Tennent, were the first to manifest the start of the Great Awakening in the 1730s.