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JEFFERSON / HAMILTON VIEWPOINTS




JEFFERSON



HAMILTON




 



On Who Should Govern




Had deep faith in the common people



Believed that the common people often acted especially farmers foolishly



Distrusted special privilege



 



Thought that the rich, educated and wellborn were the people who should rule



Wished to lower voting qualifications



Wanted to raise voting qualifications




 



On the Structure of Government




 



Favored a strong central government strong state governments



Favored a weak central government



 



Thought that the American government should be modeled on the British system



Preferred a more democratic government



 



Wanted to increase the number of federal employees



 



Wanted to reduce the number of federal employees



Supported a loose interpretation of the Constitution



Favored a strict interpretation of the Constitution



 



Thought that individual liberties, such as freedom of speech, should be sometimes restricted



Believed that individual liberties must be protected by laws




 



On Economics




Thought that agriculture should be the backbone of the nation finance



 



Wanted a balanced economy of agriculture, trade, and manufacturing



 



Did not support giving government aid to trade, finance, and manufacturing



Favored giving government aid to trade, finance, and manufacturing



 



Opposed the establishment of a national bank



Established a national bank



 



Wanted to eliminate internal taxes



 



Wanted to maintain internal taxes



Wanted to pay off the national debt



 



Wanted to use the national debt to establish credit




 



On Foreign Policy




 



Believed that America was obligated to help France



Supported Britain, the parent country



 



Jeffersonians (Democratic-Republican Party)



 



Hamiltonians (Federalist Party)



Made up of artisans, shopkeepers, frontier settlers, and small farmers



 



Consisted of bankers, manufacturers, merchants, professional people, and wealthy farmers



Was strongest in the South, in the Southwest, and on the frontier



 



Had the most support in New England and along the Atlantic coast



 


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The Who's What:  Had Conservatives prevailed.... / Let the Parties Begin


Thomas Jefferson



Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, a plantation on a large tract of land near present-day Charlottesville, Virginia. His father, Peter Jefferson (1707/08-57), was a successful planter and surveyor and his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson (1720-76), came from a prominent Virginia family. Thomas was their third child and eldest son; he had six sisters and one surviving brother. 


After his father died when Jefferson was a teen, the future president inherited the Shadwell property (5,000-acre plantation). 



Slavery was a contradictory issue in Jefferson’s life. Although he was an advocate for individual liberty and at one point promoted a plan for gradual emancipation of slaves in America, he owned slaves throughout his life. Additionally, while he wrote in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal,” he believed African Americans were biologically inferior to whites and thought the two races could not co-exist peacefully in freedom. Jefferson inherited some 175 slaves from his father and father-in-law and owned an estimated 600 slaves over the course of his life. He freed only a small number of them in his will; the majority were sold following his death. 


Alexander Hamilton



James Monroe, Henry Lee, John Marshall, Alexander Hamilton, and Marquis de Lafayette were some of the Continental Army officers who served George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Of these rising stars, Alexander Hamilton overcame the greatest odds, including impoverishment and illegitimacy, in obtaining his position as aide-de-camp to General Washington. For approximately the next twenty years, Hamilton and Washington would work with each other during the Revolutionary War, the framing of the Constitution, and Washington's Presidency of the United States. The period of 1777-1778, however, pivotal to the success of the Continental Army, and ultimately that of the Continental Congress, also was important for Hamilton, for during this time, he rapidly proved his worth on a national basis. 


Alexander Hamilton was born on the West Indian Island of Nevis. His father, of Scottish ancestry, remained in Scotland during Hamilton's childhood due to a debt, forcing his mother to rely on friends and relatives for financial support. Around the age of ten the family moved to the nearby island of St. Croix where his mother died soon after. Friends and relatives took an interest in the future of the young Hamilton by encouraging him to work as a mercantile clerk and to read and write, activities at which he excelled despite his lack of proper schooling. Hamilton's formal education began after Reverend Hugh Knox, a Presbyterian minister, gave a sermon so inspiring that Hamilton wrote a description of it for the Royal-Danish American Gazette. When a group of readers found out that the words were those of an under-privileged fifteen-year-old they decided to sponsor his way to the American Colonies to receive his first formal education. 


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