I think Paine most likely wrote The Crisis, Number 4 in order to rally up support to fight.
The Stonewall riots were a riots of the members of the gay community against the police raid, in Manhattan in 1969.
So let's check the sodomy laws in 1969: Sodomy was banned in every state until 1962, when Illinois adopted the recommendation of the Model penal code to change this law. The next state was Connecticut in 1972, so in 1969 all states except Illinois had anti-sodomy laws!!! (that's 49 states)
An isolationist policy partially protected the new vulnerable nation as well as allowing the nation to maintain a small military.
The US was physically vulnerable following the Revolutionary War and it they were to be tangled up with a European nation in an alliance that led to war then they could lose land or even their newly formed independence. The geographic location of the US made it easier to protect the new nation and support the idea of isolation from European affairs. George Washington urged in his Farewell Address to avoid alliances with foreign powers. The military could also remain small if the US had no reason to enter into war. This was supported by the Democratic-Republicans who were fearful of a powerful federal government. Keeping the military small meant that the federal government was less likely to use it against the citizens of the country.
He signed the indian removal act, making it a law and removing the natives from the southern states.
