01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Whiskey Rebellion, Edward Gent, Jay Treaty
13 May 2018
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Chapter 08 - Securing the Republic, 1790-1815
1. Politics during the Washington presidency
1. Outset of the Washington administration
1. George Washington as symbol of national unity, virtue
2. Key figures
2. The Hamiltonians
1. Vision for the republic
1. Robust economic development
2. Close commercial ties to Europe
3. Military power
4. Strong national government
2. Program
1. Federal assumption of national and state debts
2. Creation of new national debt
3. Establishment of Bank of the United States
4. Whiskey tax
5. Government promotion of industrial manufacture
1. Tariffs
2. Subsidies
6. National army
3. Bases of support
3. The Jeffersonians
1. Vision for the republic
1. Westward expansion
2. Land for independent farmers
3. Free trade
2. Critique of Hamilton program
1. Threat to liberty from a standing army
2. Favoritism toward speculators at expense of small
farmers
3. Favoritism toward diversified North at expense of
agrarian South
3. Bases of support
4. 1790 compromise between Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians
5. Divisions over foreign affairs
1. Mixed response to French Revolution
1. Enthusiasm (Jeffersonians)
2. Alarm (Washington, Hamilton)
2. Aggravating developments
1. War between France and Britain
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2. Edward Genêt tour of America
3. British encroachments on American ships
4. Jay Treaty
6. Emergence of political parties
1. The Federalist Party
1. Agenda and philosophy
1. Hamilton's economic program
2. Close ties with Britain
3. Suppression of popular unrest (Whiskey
Rebellion)
4. Fixed social hierarchy
2. Bases of support
2. The Republican party
1. Agenda and philosophy
1. Democratic self-government
2. Aversion to social and economic inequality
2. Bases of support
3. Intensity of partisan debate
7. Expansion of popular involvement in public debate
1. Contributing factors
1. Partisan divisions
2. British radicalism
1. Emigrants to America
2. Thomas Paine's Rights of Man
2. Manifestations
1. Political meetings, pamphlets, newspapers
2. Democratic-Republican societies
3. Emerging principle of democratic rights
3. Implications for partisan politics
1. Federalist alarm
2. Republican receptiveness
8. Renewed discussion of women's rights
1. Expanding participation in public discussion
2. Influential voices
1. Mary Wollstonecraft
2. Judith Sargent Murray
2. The Adams years
1. Election of 1796
1. Washington's retirement and farewell
2. Federalist Adams's victory over Republican Jefferson
3. Sectional division of the vote
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