The First Party Period

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• The First Party Period

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• MAIN THEMES
• How the Federalists rose to-and fell from-power.
• The presentist debate over the religious
  inclinations of the founding fathers.
• The internal American divisions that beset the
  First Party period.
• How American ambitions and attitudes came into
  conflict with British policies and led to the War
  of 1812.
• The participation and impact of the War of 1812
  on Amerinindians.
• The impact of the War of 1812 on American
  politics.
• The defining of political authority through John
  Marshall and the Supreme Court.

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FOUR PARTY PERIODS   1796 - 1828 1ST
PARTY SYSTEM   FEDERALIST - ANTI-FEDERALIST
NATIONALIST - REPUBLICAN / DEMOCRAT HAMILTONIA
N - JEFFERSONIAN   1829 - 1856 2ND PARTY
SYSTEM   WHIG - DEMOCRACY ANTI-JACKSONIAN -
JACKSONIAN   1856 - 1964 3RD PARTY
SYSTEM   REPUBLICAN - DEMOCRAT   1964 -
4TH PARTY SYSTEM   DEMOCRAT -
REPUBLICAN
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RELIGION DURING FIRST PARTY PERIOD

• Religion and Revivalism
• Deism
• Universalism
• Unitarianism
• The Second Great Awakening  
• PRESBYTERIANS WEST
• BABTISTS SOUTH
• METHODISTS -
• ARMINIANISM OVERTAKES CALVINISM

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WERE FOUNDING FATHERS CHRISTIANS? THE HISTORY
OF A BAD QUESTION
David Barton
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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• The Downfall of the Federalists 
• The Election of 1796
• The Quasi War with France  
• Repression and Protest
• The Revolution of 1800
• Adams Vs. Jefferson  

John Adams (Library of Congress)
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• Stirrings of Industrialism
• The Cotton Gin
• Transportation Innovations  

Robert Fulton (Portrait Gallery)
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• Stirrings of Industrialism
• Country and City  

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• The Louisiana Purchase  

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• Expansion and War
• Impressment
• 1807 - Chesapeake / Leopard Incident
• Peaceable Coercion
• 1807 - Embargo
• 1808 - Non - Intercourse Act
• The Indian Problem and the British
• Tecumseh and the Prophet
• Tribal Unity Tenskwatawa The Prohet
• 1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe
• Florida and War Fever 
• War Hawks 
• Calhoun and Clay
• 1812 - Declaration of War

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• The War of 1812
• Battles with the Tribes
• 1813 Harrison / Tecumseh Battle of the Thames
• 1814 - Andrew Jackson Battle of Horseshoe Bend /
• Capture of Pensacola
• Battles with the British 
• 1814 Burning of Washington
• 1815 Battle of New Orleans 
• The Revolt of New England 
• 1814 Hartford Convention 
• The Peace Settlement
• 1814 - Treaty of Ghent

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The War of 1812
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• Stabilizing Economic Growth
• The Government and Economic Growth
• 2nd Bank of the United States
• Importance of tariffs 
• Transportation
• Internal Improvements?
• National Roads

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• The Era of Good Feelings  
• The End of the First Party System
•   John Quincy Adams and Florida 
• The Panic of 1819
• Speculation
• Bank failures
• High Prices  

Adopt the necessary measures John C. Calhoun
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• The Missouri Compromise  

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• Sectionalism and Nationalism 
• The Latin American Revolution and the Monroe
  Doctrine

The American continents henceforth are not to be
considered as subjects for future colonization by
any European Powers James Monroe
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• The Revival of Opposition  
• 1824 - The Corrupt Bargain  

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• The Revival of Opposition 
• 1824 1828 - The Second President Adams  
• 1828 1836 - Jackson Triumphant  

Andrew Jackson
John Quincy Adams
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MAJOR THEMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
WAR
SLAVERY
RELIGION
PERIODS COLONIAL REVOLUTIONARY ANTEBELLUM
IMPERIALISM
NATION BUILDING
REVOLUTION
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
REFORM
NATIVISM / RACISM
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Benjamin Franklin Observations concerning the
Increase on Mankind at http//www.jmu.edu/madi
son/frankpop.htm
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• DAVID WALKERS APPEAL (Cont)
• MORAL HYPOCRICY AND THE AMERICAN CHARACTURE
• CLASSICAL EDUCATION
• ANTI-PASSIVIST / GARRISONIAN (GOD OF ARMIES)
• ANTI-CATHOLIC (P.21)

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