Section 1
THE NATURAL ARISTOCRACY
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Read:
Look at:
Recommended:
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Section 3
THE FOUNDERS' REPUBLIC:
Roman Virtue and Agrarian Visions
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Thomas Cole's
The Course of Empire
(click to see) |
Read:
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Section 4
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
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READ 2 of the following articles:
Daniel
Vickers, "Competency and Competition: Economic Culture in Early
America"
Alfred
F. Young, "George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution"
Linda
Kerber, "The
Republican Mother: Women and the Enlightenment—An American
Perspective"
MU students
& faculty using an off-campus Internet connection will need to access JSTOR
though the proxy server.
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Section 5
"A perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions":
JEFFERSON, SLAVERY, AND THE EARLY REPUBLIC
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Thomas Jefferson, Selections
on race and slavery from Notes on Virginia and letters |
Section 6
HAMILTON'S FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND THE RISE OF OPPOSITION
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PowerPoint presentation on the
"Residence Issue and the
Compromise of 1790"
(works best
with Internet Explorer, a non-Mac computer, and a non-dialup
connection) |
Read:
Jefferson's
attack on the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
Excerpt
from Hamilton's defense of the constitutionality of the B.U.S.
or, full
version
Excerpt
from Hamilton's Report on Manufactures
Jefferson
on his hatred of parties
Jefferson's
notes on the origins of his opposition to Hamilton
"Rules for changing a limited republican government into an unlimited hereditary one"
(National Gazette, 1792) |
Section 7
THE UNITED STATES AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS
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Jefferson
on Revolution, letters to: William
S. Smith and Abigail
Adams (son-in-law & wife of John Adams), 1787; William
Short, 1793
Jefferson
on the controversy with France: on U.S.
obligations to France; first
impressions of "Citizen" Genet
Proclamation
of Neutrality
Jefferson
on his decision to resign
FOR REFERENCE:
Documents
on the 1778 Treaty with France
Declaration
of the Rights of Man (France, 1789)
Revolutionary
Calendar
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Section
8
YEAR OF THE GUN: 1794 |
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Washington's
Proclamation on the Whiskey Rebellion
Washington's
Annual Message 1794 & Jefferson's
response
LOOK AT:
Whiskey
Rebellion web site |
Section 9
THE JAY TREATY AND THE FIRST PARTISAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION |
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Jefferson's
letter to Mazzei
Washington's
Farewell Address
Campaign materials
FOR REFERENCE:
Jay
Treaty and related documents |
Section
10
THE FEDERALIST "REIGN OF TERROR" |
The
Lyon-Griswold brawl
(click to see full cartoon) |
Alien
and Sedition Acts
Virginia
and Kentucky Resolutions
Speech
of Rep. John Allen (F-Conn.) in favor of the Sedition Act (read
pp. 2093-2101, using "next image" link to turn page)
Michael
Durey, "Thomas Paine's Apostles" (MU
students only) |
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