THE FEDERALIST ERA WASHINGTON AND ADAMS WASHINGTON AS

THE FEDERALIST ERA WASHINGTON AND ADAMS

WASHINGTON AS PRESIDENT OF A NEW NATION v “A Heart Filled with Distress” v The 1 st Cabinet v Department of State – Thomas Jefferson v Department of Treasury – Alexander Hamilton v John Jay’s Supreme Court v The Need to Raise Revenue

HAMILTON’S FINANCIAL PLAN v Establishing Public Credit v Emerging Sectional Differences v The 1 st National Bank v Encouraging Manufactures v Hamilton’s Successes v Retiring war debt v Renewed influx of foreign capital v Flourishing economic growth

THE REPUBLICAN ALTERNATIVE v Hamiltonian Federalists v. Jeffersonian Republicans v Particular areas of conflict: v Tax on whiskey v Proposal for national bank v “Report on Manufactures” v Jefferson opposites and Hamilton were, in many respects,

FOREIGN CRISES v The French Revolution and Napoleon v Citizen Genet v Jay’s Treaty

DOMESTIC CRISES v Frontier Tensions v The Whiskey Rebellion v Pinckney’s Treaty

SETTLEMENT OF NEW LAND v Land Policy v The Wilderness Road

WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL v Called for unity, decried partisanship v Warning against permanent foreign entanglements v Election of 1796

ADAMS AND THE CONFLICT WITH FRANCE v Middle ground between Hamilton and Jefferson v Inherited an undeclared war v XYZ Affair v Strengthened American defenses

INCREASED PARTISAN TENSIONS v Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 v Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

THE REVOLUTION OF 1800 v Republican victory v Judiciary Act of 1801 v The Virginia Dynasty and sectionalism