The dutch were involved in the fur trade.
Instituting the Reign of Terror.
John Adams was the one who passed the Alien and Sedition Acts which punishes those who opposed the federal policies. However, Thomas Jefferson felt that these acts defy both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. So he proposed the Nullification doctrine which states that if the federal government passed an unconstitutional law, the states are not required to follow it.
The states contributed to rising inflation following the revolutionary war by "printing their own money," since this was before there was any system in the US that mandated a single, solis currency.
