Launching the New Republic

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Launching the New Republic

• 1789-1800

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Alexander Hamilton

• Protégé of Washington
• Born out of wedlock
• Orphaned at 13
• Attended Kings College
• Studied law, self-made aristocrat

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Hamiltons Vision

• Establishing the Public Credit
• Funding federal debt at face value
• Assumption of state debt
• Excise tax on Liquor
• National Bank
• Notes become stable currency
• Source of capital
• Keep government funds

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Hamiltons Vision, cont

• Encouraging Manufacture
• Diversification of Labor
• Greater use of machinery
• Paid work
• Promotion of immigration
• More opportunity
• Larger marker for agricultural poducts

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Encouraging Manufacture

• Protective Tariff
• Restraint on export
• Tariff exemption of raw material import
• Improvement of transportation

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Republican Alternative

• Opposition to Hamilton
• Led by Madison and Jefferson
• Federalists vs. Republicans

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Crises Foreign and Domestic

• French Revolution 1789
• King Louis XVI executed in 1793
• European alliance against French Republic
• April 22, 1793 Washingtons Proclamation

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Citizen Edmond Charles Genet

• Organized Jacobin Club
• Engaged Privateers
• Intrigues on Spanish Territory
• Analysis

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Jays Instructions

• Remove British soldiers from Northwest Ports
• Secure reparations for loss of American Ships
• Compensation for slaves carried away in 1783
• And legalize American Commerce in British West
  Indies

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Jays Treaty

• evacuation by 1796
• reparations for ships seized between 1793-1794
  and
• legalization of trade with British West Indies,
  with restrictions.

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Whiskey Rebellion

• Frontier Resistance
• Blew up stills of those who paid the tax
• Robbed mails
• Stopped court proceedings
• Threatened to assault Pittsburgh
• August Sept Washington calls up militia issues
  proclamation to suppress rebellion

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Washingtons Farewell

• Urged unity and support for the new government
• Decried sectionalism
• Decried party factionalism
• And in foreign relations America should steer
  clear of permanent alliance with any portion of
  the foreign world.

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Election of 1796

• Federalists choose John Adams and Thomas Pickney
  as candidates
• Republicans choose Thomas Jefferson and Aaron
  Burr
• Adams elected President with 71 votes
• Jefferson elected Vice President with 68 votes

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Adams Presidency

• French Hostilities
• XYZ Affair
• Strengthen American Defenses
• Convention of 1800
• America gives up claims for indemnity
• France officially suspends perpetual alliance

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Domestic Crises

• Naturalization Act
• Alien Act
• The Alien Enemy Act  
• Sedition Act

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Republican Grievances

• Taxation to support the army
• Alien and Sedition Acts cast Federalists as
  against liberty
• Hostilities against Hamiltons policies
• Suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion
• Jays treaty

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Republican Victory

• Jefferson Burr tie
• Selected by House of Representatives