Jeffersonian America 2025

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  1. 4. This was constructed between 1817-1825 to connect Americans to the Hudson River with greater ease.
  2. 8. He championed states’ rights and slavery and was a symbol of the Old South.
  3. 12. He pressured Congress to abolish the direct tax of 1798 and to repeal the Alien and Sedition Acts, which were still in operation. To emphasize his opposition to the acts, he personally pardoned the ten victims of those laws who were still in prison.
  4. 13. The presidential election of 1800 provided him, the former secretary of the treasury, with a dilemma: a tie between Thomas Jefferson, a man whose principles were in direct opposition to his own, and Aaron Burr, a man Hamilton believed to have no principles at all.
  5. 15. The (mostly) Southern agrarian republicans shared with their (mostly) New England classic republican compatriots a belief that widely-shared land ownership is most conducive to private _____. However, they parted ways on the connection between private and public ______ as crucial to the survival of republican government.
  6. 16. This was the primary type of boat used for river transport
  7. 18. This was Henry Clay's plan to fulfill the dreams of Hamilton
  8. 19. Jeffersonian Republicans believed that this ideal was better than the centralized government of the Federalists
  9. 20. He became a leader of an anti-British group of Congressmen known as the War Hawks while a U.S. Representative and Speaker of the House from 1811 to 1814.
  10. 21. This ideological notion placed national political import on women’s roles as wives and, perhaps more importantly, as mothers.
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  1. 1. This 1790 law limited citizenship to free whites.
  2. 2. These were the agrarian heroes of the Roman Republic, according to Jefferson.
  3. 3. This was the most popular type of boat used on the Great Lakes
  4. 5. Hamilton and Clay wanted to promote this revolutionary process in America, to make it independent from the bullying that comes with foreign trade
  5. 6. Only three states had this type of voting at the beginning of this era
  6. 7. This was a nickname for the three most important politicians who never served as president during this period (after Hamilton's death)
  7. 9. Clay wanted to use this type of tax to pay for the construction of canals and roads that would benefit farmers, merchants, and factory owners
  8. 10. He contended that a state could not tax a federal agency (a branch of the Bank of the United States), for the power to tax was a “power to destroy.”
  9. 11. This was a second, and far less accepted, rationale for slavery - one that said people should be thankful for slavery
  10. 14. This was the primary industry developed during the Market Revolution - it relied on southern cotton and norther nimmigrant workers
  11. 17. We use this term to describe the development of a middle class and a wage-earning class tied to factory production.