ch.8-13

Hamilton's proposal, modeled on the Bank of England, private corporation that hold public funds, issue banknotes, make loans to the govt, profited shareholders
pay off revolutionary war debt

British practice, kidnapping sailors to serve in their navy

chief justice John Jay negotiated an agreement: Britain abandons outposts on the Western frontier and the US favors treatment to British imports
cancelled the American-French alliance and recognized British economic and naval supremacy

Washington supporters, supproted Hamiltons economic program and close ties with Britain
prosperous merchants, farmers, lawyers, political leaders
elitist

1794: backcountry PA farmers tried to block tax collection on distilled spirits

Madison, Jefferson
sympathetic to France, democratic self-government

supporters of the French revolution, Washington critics
Federalitsts saw them with too much liberty

American diplomats sent to Paris to negotiate a treaty, French demanded bribes, engaged in quasi-war at sea

alien act: deportation of "dangerous" individuals
sedition act: prosecution of almost any critique of the government

attack of sedition act for violatinf the first amendments

Toussaint L'Ouverture led a slave uprising leading to independence in 1804
gave hope to US enslaved people, white ppl saw this as a threat

ban on American vessels in foreign ports

end of the federalist party

goods between the great lakes and NYC

focus on the self, salvation through individual bettering

James Madison (pres.) for government-promoted economic development
new national bank, tariff on imported manufactured goods, federal financing of roads and canals

demand for land plummeted, price of western land fell
natn bank asked for money from the people it had loaned to

US opposes further European colonization in America
abstain from European wars
not interfere with new Latin American states

raised taxes on imported manufactured goods made of wool, raw materials (iron)

govt sold 20 million acres of land for questionable paper money, Jackson admin declared only silver and gold could buy land
bank of england demanded US merchants to pay in gold/silver, economic downtrend in Britain led to less demand for US cotton

1820-60: 2 million+ enslaved people sold to local buyers or "importing states" in the low south

black ppl inferior to white ppl
biblical evidence (??)
slavery allowed plantation owners to pursue the arts
slavery allowed white freedom

Gabriel's Rebellion, Denmark Vesey's conspiracy, the overtake of the Amistad, Nat Turner's Rebellion

Shakers, Oneida, Brook Farm (NE transcendentalists), Owenites

North middle class: encourage renouncing liquor

tax supported schools for all children

stop abolitionist discussions in congress

sued for going with his master to Illinois (free state) demanded that bc he went to Illinois he was free
congress ruled that only white people could be citizens