1. FEDERALIST PERIOD: to 1800

2. OUR FIRST CONSTITUTION WAS CALLED THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION.
A CONSTITUTION SAYS WHAT THE GOVERNMENT WILL BE ORGANIZED LIKE.

3. Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT COULD NOT TAX
STATES HAD THEIR OWN MONEY
THERE WAS NO PRESIDENT TO RUN THINGS
NO NATIONAL ARMED FORCES
NO WAY TO ENFORCE NATIONAL LAWS

6. NORTHWEST ORDINANCE ABOLISHED STATE CLAIMS TO THE REGION
60,000 PEOPLE COULD MAKE A STATE
HOW STATES COULD START GOVERNMENTS
SLAVERY NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER IS NOT ALLOWED

7. THOMAS JEFFERSON, AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION, ALSO WROTE THE VIRGINIA STATUTE OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. THE IDEA THAT RELIGION SHOULD BE SEPARATE FROM GOVERNMENT IS USED LATER IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION

8. DANIEL SHAY’S REBELLION: FARMER’S IN MASSACHUSETTS
DANNY SHAY
DANIEL SHAY’S REBELLION:
FARMER’S IN MASSACHUSETTS
COULD NOT MAKE MONEY TO PAY THEIR TAXES AND LOST THEIR FARMS

9. THE REBELLION CONVINCED MANY OF THE NEED FOR A NEW NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

11. WRITING A NEW CONSTITUTION IN PHILADELPHIA 1787

16. ADDED BY CONGRESS TO THE CONSTITUTION IN 1791

17. MAIN THEMES OF FEDERALIST PERIOD: WOULD THE NEW NATION SURVIVE UNDER
STRESS FROM THE BRITISH, FRENCH,
REBELLIOUS CITIZENS, BEING BROKE,
AND THE INDIANS.

18. FEDERALISTS
REPUBLICANS

20. JEFFERSON Vs. HAMILTON

21. HAMILTON FOUGHT WITH WASHINTON AND WAS ONE OF HIS IMPORTANT OFFICERS.

23. JEFFERSON WROTE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

24. JEFFERSON IS ONLY ON THE NICKEL.

25. REPUBLICANS:Led by Thomas Jefferson
FEDERALISTS: Led by Alexander Hamilton
Support merchants and businessmen
Want a strong federal (national) government
Want a national bank
Want more taxes to pay war debt
Favor the rich as leaders of the country
Loose interpretation of constitution
Supported the British
REPUBLICANS:Led by Thomas Jefferson
Support farmers and planters (AGRARIAN)
Do not want a national bank
Want the states to have the power
Want a weak national government
Want few taxes...not pay debt
Strict interpretation of constitution
Supported the French

26. AGRARIAN MEANS FARMER

27. Secretary of the Treasury
I am a Federalist. I want to pay all the U.S. debts on those war bonds.
I want to start a National Bank so all the money is the same and control economy.
We need more taxes to pay the debt…let’s tax whiskey.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Secretary of the Treasury

28. HAMILTON WANTED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ASSUME (TO PAY) DEBTS ON
WAR BONDS AND STATE DEBT FROM THE REVOLUTION.
WAR BOND

29. You mean they are paying us to fight with IOU’S????
REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIERS

30. In 1790, Hamilton had dinner with James Madison and
Thomas Jefferson and the three agreed that the debts could
be paid if the capital was moved from New York to
Washington D.C

31. NEW YORK CITY WAS THE CAPITAL OF THE U.S.

32. FEDERAL HALL…SEAT OF U.S. GOVERNMENT
IN NEW YORK CITY

33. SO THE CAPITAL WAS MOVED TO WASHINGTON
IN EXCHANGE FOR THE DEBTS BEING PAID
BY THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT.

34. THE SOLDIERS LOST OUT BECAUSE THEY HAD SOLD THEIR WAR BONDS FOR VERY LITTLE BELIEVING THEY WOULD NOT BE WORTH ANYTHING.

35. WESTERN FARMERS TURNED CORN INTO LIQOUR TO
SEND IT EAST EASIER.

36. The Whiskey Rebellion was put down by Washington,
Demonstrating the power of the Federal government.

37. WHISKEY REBELLION...
Washington led the troops
To put down the rebellion.

38. ALIEN AND
SEDITION
ACT:
The Federalists
made it illegal for
Republicans to
criticize the
government!!!

39. The Alien Act gave the President the legal right to expel from the country people he considered "dangerous."
The Sedition Act punished "false, scandalous and malicious" writings against the government with fines and imprisonment. Most of those arrested under the Sedition Act were Republican writers
who criticized Federalists and their policies.

40. Fight in Congress over the Sedition Act

41. MADISON AND JEFFERSON WROTE THE “VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS” AGAINST THE SEDITION ACT.

42. STATES RIGHTS!!!
STATES SHOULD NOT FOLLOW BAD FEDERAL LAWS...THIS IDEA ORIGINATES WITH THE VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS.

43. VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY NULLIFIED THE ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS.

44. STORMING THE BASTILLE:
The French 4th of July…July 16

45. REPUBLICANS SUPPORTED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND FEDERALISTS SUPPORTED THE BRITISH…HATED THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

46. BUMMERMan!

47. Britain and France were at war from 1793 until 1815…the
Federalists supported Britain and Republicans supported France

50. THE UNITED STATES WAS A VERY WEAK COUNTRY AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
THE UNITED STATES WAS A VERY WEAK COUNTRY AFTER THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. WE HAD A VERY SMALL ARMY AND NAVY…WE WANTED TO STAY NEUTRAL!!!! Trade with both.

51. Because we were weak, other countries took
BRITAIN AND
FRANCE
EARLY U.S.
Because we were weak, other countries took
advantage of us.

52. IMPRESSMENT:
British stole our

53. XYZ AFFAIR: Three French officials want
a bribe to do business…they disrespect us.

55. CITIZEN GENET: FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO THE U. S
CITIZEN GENET: FRENCH AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S.: He wants money to help fight the
British.

56. Also set out how states could enter the Union…60,000
people minimum plus make a state constitution.

58. The British were selling guns to the Indians in the Northwest
Territories who were attacking Americans. Jay’s Treaty removed
The forts but did not end impressment.

59. Republicans did not like the
JAY’S TREATY DEALT WITH THE FOLLOWING
Britain was still occupying a number of forts on U.S. territory in the Great Lakes region.
They agreed to leave these forts.
The border with Canada became more clear.
Did not deal with impressment problem.
Republicans did not like the
treaty…hated Britain

60. Pinckney's Treaty defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies in the west and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River where it went through Western Florida

61. GEORGE WASHINGTON WARNED IN HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS
FOR THE U.S. TO STAY CLEAR OF “FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENT”…IN OTHERWORDS…STAY NEUTRAL...ALSO AVOID POLITICAL PARTIES.

62. WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE AND WHY?

63. WHAT REBELLION DID WASHINGTON PUT DOWN AND WHY DID THEY REBEL?

64. WHAT WAS THE XYZ AFFAIR ALL ABOUT?

65. THE FEDERALISTS... THE REPUBLICANS
Were supported by Businessmen and bankers ?
THE REPUBLICANS
Were supported by farmers (agrarian) ?