The members of the Constitutional Convention overstepped the instructions of their state governments to amend the Articles of Confederation, and wrote a whole new document instead. It was presented as a fait accompli by the members of the convention, and with supporters that included George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, achieved a peaceful revolution that strengthened the national government at the expense of the governments of the individual states.
Jefferson's sweeping electoral victory in 1800 against John Adams, which he called "The Revolution of 1800," demonstrated that the people of the United States did not favor aristocracy as a form of government, no matter how benign it might be. It was so dramatic that Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party (soon shortened to simply the Democratic Party) won the Presidency in 1804, 1808, 1812, 1816, and 1820 as well. John Quincy Adams, John Adams' son, won in 1824, but only because Henry Clay, the Whig Party candidate for President, threw all of his support to Adams in an election decided by the House of Representatives in a four way race (Andrew Jackson had won the popular vote, but did not carry a majority in the Electoral College). Clay hated Andrew Jackson, and was promised the office of Secretary of State by Adams in return.
Daniel Boone and the founding of Boonsboro and Kentucky.
When Daniel Boone went west from North Carolina in 1775, he was in violation of the laws of Great Britain, and the treaties that the British had concluded with the Native American tribes west of the Allegheny and Great Smoky Mountains. He and his fellow British subjects, as well as those who followed them, then homesteaded lands that did not belong to them, fighting off the rightful owners (the Native Americans) until the Peace Treaty with Great Britain in 1783 gave a degree of legitimacy to their, up to that point, illegal claims. Any other explanation is a race-based justification of illegal actions by Boone and the other white settlers after the fact.
Davy Crockett, the Alamo, and Texas.
Good ol' Davy Crockett, the King of the Wild Frontier as Walt Disney called him. Went to Texas because: 1) he was feeling squeezed by all of the new folk who were filling up Tennessee as the population passed the 600,000 mark; 2) and because he was upset over the mistreatment of the Cherokees and other Native Americans by the Federal Government, an action he strongly opposed in Congress. The Native Americans were being driven from their ancestral homes--and onto the Trail of Tears--to make way for: 1) more white settlers and their slaves in Tennessee and other states; 2) to take advantage of the discovery of gold in western North Carolina, as well as Northern Georgia and Alabama in the early 1830's. When he reached Texas, Davy joined a revolution in progress, against the legally constituted Mexican authorities. Crockett died with 135 others, including Jim Bowie and William Travis, at a place called The Alamo, where he achieved a secular sainthood.
The Underground Railroad.
"The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also." --Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. The Complete Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial Edition; volume 1, p. 28; 1904.
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