1. Warm-Up (5)
Read through the information about Alexander Hamilton & Thomas Jefferson

2. Hamilton
Jefferson
Life/Personality
Caribbean kid, home detsroyred, gets scholarship to US, worked for GW, marries important chick, delegate, Founding father, luck, ambition, grit, talented
Born rich, gifted, tobacco plantation owner, bad speaker, great writer
Name of Party
Federalists
Democratic-Republicans
View of People
Greedy, he is afraid of giving power to regular people; rich smart people should rule
Positive, believes in regular people
Type of Government
strong national govt
Small government
Type of Economy
Manufacturing economy
agricultural economy

3. The Origin of American Political Parties pg. 65
Unit 6:The New Republic

4. Today’s Objective (30) Team Haughton’s 2020 Diamonds 8.5C
Explain the origin of American political parties
Summarize the leaders and policies of the 1st two American political parties

7. Political Parties Have different ideas about government
Started in 1790s
Goal=win elections and control government

9. The Federalists Government should be ruled by the “best people”
Strong national government
Industrial/manufacturing economy with protective tariff
National bank
Loose (broad) interpretation of the Constitution

10. Leaders Alexander Hamilton John Adams Henry Knox
George Washington (sort of)

11. Democratic-Republicans
Believed in the “common man”
Small national government, strong states
Strict interpretation of the Constitution
No national bank
Agricultural economy
No tariff

12. Leaders
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe

13. Speed Skills Challenge (5)
Name That Political Party!

22. Next Item Paste the Hamilton and Jefferson readings onto pages pg. 66
Exit Ticket
Independent Practice

23. Political Party Facebook Group Pages/Recruiment Posters (15)
Instructions
Requirements:
Name of party
Leaders
Ideas/policies
Updates/meetings
Campaign slogans
And at the bottom:
What political parties are
Why political parties started
Color
Neatness
Creativity

24. Homework (1)
Finish your pages!