- THE CONSTITUTION AND THE GOALS OF ECONOMIC CONSERVATIVES
- prohibitions on the states
- assistance for merchants and manufacturers
- RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION
- Federalists vs. AntiFederalists--their differences
- socioeconomic/sectional differences
- ideological
- "mindedness"--agrarian mindedness and commerical mindedness
- ideology
- socioeconomic status
- geography
- outlook on American and the world
- overview of the state conventions and the Federalists' advantages
In summary, the Constitution represented a conservative movment which marked a desire for a new future. The Constitution was a strong departure from the practice of the state constitutions and the Articles of Confederation.
- POLITICS IN THE YOUNG REPUBLIC IN THE 1790S
- An overview of the rise of the First Party System
- arose out of factions in Congress
- polarized around certain overriding issues
- expanded into the electorate
- Was there any continuity between the Federalists and Antifederalists in the 1780s and the Federalists and Republicans in the 1790s?
- party difference in the 1790s went beyond socioeconomic differences
- Alexander Hamilton's programs would help dissolve the coalition of the 1780s Federalists
- Who was a "typical" Federalist?
- Who was a "typical" Jeffersonian Republican
- Factors used to understand the parties' differences (schemata)
- socioeconomic differences
- sectional differences
- "mindedness"
- views on foreign policy
- views on the Constitution
- views of human nature
- opinions on the role of the central government
- THE FEDERALISTS IN POWER
- Alexander Hamilton's economic program--first issue to polarize Congress
- funding the national debt
- assumption of the states' debts
- Bank of the United States
- excise tax
- voting on assumption in the Congress
- BUS vote in Congress
- sectional divisions of the votes in Congress
- debate in the Cabinet over the BUS
- excise tax and the Whiskey Rebellion
- foreign policy and the Proclamation of Neutrality in 1793
- JAY TREATY (1795)
- second issue to polarize Congress
- characteristics of growing partisanship
- politics expands into the electorate
- THE ELECTION OF 1796
- Hamilton's maneuvers
- sectional nature of the voting
- THE PRESIDENCY OF JOHN ADAMS
- his role in the development of the First Party System
- "High Federalists"
- XYZ Affair
- Quasi-War with France
- Alien and Sedition Acts (partisan attacks?)
- Kentucky and Vriginia Resolutions (compact theory of the Constitution)
- THE ELECTION OF 1800
- sectional nature of the voting
- Was there a "revolution" in 1800?
- overview and summary of the Federalists
- weaknesses
- achievements
- Why were the Federalists unable to compete for a longer period of time?