Downtown Kingston | South Kingstown, RI

Although not specifically discussed in this episode, a visit to the Nathanael Greene homestead allows one to imagine the images of home that probably lingered in his mind while fighting in the southern colonies.  There must of been numerous times while being chased by Cornwallis that Greene wished he was back home with his wife and kids. 

Kingston Free Library | Kingston, RI

Although not specifically discussed in this episode, a visit to the Nathanael Greene homestead allows one to imagine the images of home that probably lingered in his mind while fighting in the southern colonies.  There must of been numerous times while being chased by Cornwallis that Greene wished he was back home with his wife and kids. 

Newport Colony House | Newport, RI

Although not specifically discussed in this episode, a visit to the Nathanael Greene homestead allows one to imagine the images of home that probably lingered in his mind while fighting in the southern colonies.  There must of been numerous times while being chased by Cornwallis that Greene wished he was back home with his wife and kids. 

Timeline of Ratification by the 13 States

While those in favor of ratification, The Federalists, were in heated debates with those who opposed ratification, The Anti-Federalists, Rhode Island continued to implement its paper money policy that would allow their rural farming communities to remain afloat during difficult economic times.  However, by remaining so comitted to the implementation of that policy it also played a critical role in preventing them from ratifying the Constitution.  By the start of 1790, Rhode Island was the only state who had yet to join the Union.

Rhode Island did not participate in the first presidential election 

From December 1788 to January 1789, the first ever presidential election took place in the United States of America.  However, since Rhode Island wouldn't go on to ratify the Constitution until May 1790 they did not participate in the election.  When President Washington toured New England in the Fall of 1789 he made it a point not to visit Rhode Island.  After all, why would he visit a state that wasn't even part of the nation he was leading. 

• Rhode Island: A History by William G. McLoughlin
• Colonial Rhode Island: A History by Sydney V. James
• Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution by Terry Golway 
• Battles of the Revolutionary War by W.J. Wood
• Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution by Terry Golway
• The Glorious Cause by Robert Middlekauff
• The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents by Joseph J. Ellis
  
• Power and Liberty by Gordon Wood
• A History of Kingston, RI: 1700 - 1900 by Christina McBurney
• The Summer of 1787 by David O. Stewart

• The Bristol Fourth of July Parade, From Pious Henry Wight to Rascally Buddy Cianci by New England Historical Society 
• Introduction to the Ratification of the Constitution in Rhode Island by Author Unknown