HISB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Embargo Act Of 1807, Whiskey Rebellion, Limited Government
Document Summary
The rise and fall of the jeffersonian republic. Federalists in power (1789-1800: creating a federal government, the rise of party: federalists and democratic republicans, crisis of the 1790s. Mr. jefferson"s republic (1801-1816: republican successes: louisiana, republican failures: embargo and war. Keywords: alexander hamilton; funded national debt; protective tariffs; whiskey rebellion (1794); alien and sedition acts (1798); yeoman farmer; louisiana purchase (1803); embargo. Act (1807); peaceable coercion ; war of 1812 (1812-15) Federalists only won with the ratification fight in virginia and massachusetts (the two most important states: the amendments were put into the constitution. The 1789 republic was under george washington and john adams (called themselves federalists: they wanted to create a strong national government. Thomas jefferson made his own republic: he wanted a more limited government with a social base of farming and agriculture. George washington was super popular and everyone new that he was going to be the first president of the united states.
