USCH 1.6-Early Political Parties
Opening:
Complete
Reading
Journal 1.6
Work Period:
•USHC 1.6 Early
Political Parties
Notes
•USHC 1.7 Judicial
Review
Closing
Quiz on 1.6 and 1.7 if time
Objective
• Analyze the development of the
two party system in early
American politics
Essential Question
• How did the sectional and
economic differences between
Hamilton and Jefferson impact
the political parties and view they
created?
Economics (War Debt)
Federalists
(Hamilton)
Democratic-Republicans
(Jefferson)
• Pay back debt
• Southerners already paid
• Promote trade with countries
• Didn’t want to pay Northern debt
Compromise:
• Southern states would help pay  National capital was moved to a Southern state
(Maryland)
Issue-National Bank
Federalists
(Hamilton)
Democratic-Republicans
(Jefferson)
• YES!
• NO!
•Used as a repository and a source of
• Constitution established policy
loans
• Doesn’t mention control of a
• More power to the elite
National Bank
• Constitution says, anything
“necessary and proper”
Conclusion:
• Established bank (Elastic Clause)  Bank of the United States
Issue-Tariffs
Protective Tariff – Tax on imported goods from Europe
Federalists
(Hamilton)
Democratic-Republicans
(Jefferson)
• YES!
• NO!
• Encourage American
•Believed democracy was dependent on the
production
farmer—not on industry
• Brought in income
•Led to Excise Tax (tax on certain goods)–
• Grew corn 
• Main crop (income)
Rebellion:
• Pennsylvania frontiersmen rebelled
• Washington led troops to stop rebellion
• Showed gov’t power over domestic problems
WHISKEY REBELLION
• During Washington’s 2nd
term in office (1794),
Whiskey farmers,
angered by an excessive
tax, attacked tax
collectors
• Washington responded
with great force (13,000
troops)
• Set precedent for
armed force to support
federal authority
Issue-Foreign Policy
Federalists
(Hamilton)
Democratic-Republicans
(Jefferson)
• NO!
• YES!
• Support England
•Supports France
• Traditional Ties
• Similarities between the Declaration
•Didn’t like France b/c of Citizen Genet (a
of Independence and the Declaration of
French diplomat who tried to get the US to help the Rights of Man and the Citizen
fight the British)
•Signed Jay’s Treaty to keep peace with England
•This basic disagreement was heightened by:
XYZ Affair
XYZ AFFAIR
• Adams attempts to avoid
war with France after
France ships seize American
ships
• He sends official to meet
with France foreign minister
• France sends three low level
officers
• Adams is insulted and refers
to them as “X, Y, and Z”
• Next two years an
undeclared naval war
between France & U.S. was
waged
AN EASY WAY TO REMEMBER…SAFE
PLANS
• Jefferson (Democratic
Republicans)
• Hamilton (Federalists)
• S-Strict Interpretation
(State’s Rights
• A-Agriculture (Farmers)
• F-France over Great Britain
• E-Educated and common
man
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P-Propertied and rich men
L-Loose Interpretation
A-Army
N-National Bank
S-Strong central
government