POLITICAL CULTURESCH 7

Founding Fathers

Key Terms

Northwest Land Ordinance United Indian Nations Council Five “Civilized” Tribes * Shays’ Rebellion / Daniel Shays Whiskey Rebellion Richard Allen / African Methodist

Episcopal Church Articles of Confederation Philadelphia Convention of 1787 Virginia Plan New Jersey Plan * Three-fifths compromise Constitution / Bill of Rights ratification Adam Smith / Laissez-faire

economics

Federalists Anti-Federalists Democratic-Republican Party George Washington James Madison / The Federalist

Papers Alexander Hamilton Aaron Burr John Adams Thomas Jefferson XYZ Affair Yazoo Land Fraud * French Revolution Neutrality Act Alien and Sedition Acts Election of 1800

Questions to Consider

What challenges did the new nation face in the immediate aftermath of the Revolutionary War? What do the uprisings by farmers and debtors tell us about the social and economic divisions in the early Republic?

What were the main issues dividing Federalists and Anti-Federalists? Who were the proponents of each side? How do these view points reflect our current political party system?

If You’re Curious . . .

A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution by Carol Berkin

The Federalist Papers by James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy by Annette Gordon-Reed