Section 1
REVOLT OF THE CREOLE ELITE
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Look at:
 George Washington,
"Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior In Company and Conversation" |
Section 2
THE FOUNDERS' REPUBLIC: Jefferson, Monticello, and Enlightenment
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Read:
Jefferson's letters on reason and religion, addressed to Peter
Carr, Benjamin
Rush, Charles
Thomson, & Benjamin
Waterhouse
Look at:
"The Jefferson Bible"
Recommended:
Monticello web site |
Section 3
THE FOUNDERS' REPUBLIC:
Roman Virtue and Agrarian Visions
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Thomas Cole's
The Course of Empire
(click to see) |
Read:
Jefferson,
"Manufactures" from
Notes on Virginia and impressions
of Europe in a letter to Madison
John
Adams, Preface to
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of
America
Benjamin
Rush, Thoughts on the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic
Jefferson, Letter
to Edward Carrington on the Press
Look at (coming soon):
 Jefferson's
plans for an educational system
Hamilton's
proposals at the Constitutional Convention |
Section 4
THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
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Highly recommended:
Daniel
Vickers, "Competency and Competition: Economic Culture in Early
America"
OR
Alfred
F. Young, "George Robert Twelves Hewes (1742-1840): A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution"
NOTE: These links will probably require an MU internet connection. |
Section 5
THE CONSTRUCTION OF AMERICAN NATIONHOOD
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Read:
Journal
of William Maclay, Ch.
1
Hail,
Columbia! (first national anthem)
Look at:
Joel Barlow, The
Columbiad
Temple
of Liberty (Library of
Congress exhibit on the design of the U.S. Capitol)
Recommended:
History
of the Flag web site |
Section 6
HAMILTON'S FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND THE RISE OF OPPOSITION
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Now available:
Class
presentation on the "Residence Issue and the
Compromise of 1790" |
Read:
Madison
on the unfairness of Hamilton's funding plan
Jefferson's
attack on the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
Excerpt
from Hamilton's defense of the constitutionality of the B.U.S.
or, full
version
Excerpt
from Hamilton's Report on Manufactures
Jefferson
on his hatred of parties
Jefferson's
notes on the origins of his opposition to Hamilton |
Section 7
THE UNITED STATES AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY CRISIS
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Proclamation
of Neutrality
Jefferson
on Revolution, letters to: William
S. Smith (son-in-law of John Adams), 1787; William
Short, 1793
Jefferson
on the controversy with France: on U.S.
obligations to France; first
impressions of "Citizen" Genet
Jefferson
on his decision to resign
FOR REFERENCE:
Documents
on the 1778 Treaty with France
Declaration
of the Rights of Man (France, 1789) |
Section 8
YEAR OF THE GUN: 1794
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Washington's
Proclamation on the Whiskey Rebellion
Washington's
Annual Message 1794 & Jefferson's
response
LOOK AT:
Whiskey
Rebellion web site |
Section 9
THE JAY TREATY AND THE FIRST PARTISAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
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Jefferson's
letter to Mazzei
Washington's
Farewell Address
FOR REFERENCE:Jay
Treaty and related documents |
Section 10
THE FEDERALIST "REIGN OF TERROR"
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The
Lyon-Griswold brawl
(click to see full cartoon) |
Alien
and Sedition Acts
Virginia
and Kentucky Resolutions
Speech
of Rep. John Allen (F-Conn.) in favor of the Sedition Act (read
pp. 2093-2101, using "next image" link to turn page)
RECOMMENDED:
Michael Durey, "Thomas
Paine's Apostles: Radical Emigres and the Triumph of Jeffersonian
Republicanism" |
Section 11
THE REVOLUTION OF 1800
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Election
of 1800 results & map
Jefferson's
First Inaugural Address
Jefferson,
Letters on the "Revolution of 1800":
--to
Elbridge Gerry of Mass. (1799 -- sometimes seen as TJ's
"platform")
--to
John Dickinson of Pa. (1801)
--to
Spencer Roane (1819) |
Section 12
AFTERMATH
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Section 13
JEFFERSONIAN EXPANSIONISM IN ACTION
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Jefferson,
Letters on Indians:
--to
William Henry Harrison
--to Benjamin Hawkins
Jefferson,
Section from Query 6 of Notes on Virginia on Indians (read pp.
182-190); Query
11 on "Aborigines"
Recommended:
Jefferson's
Addresses to Indian tribes (pp. 551-566)
Helpful:
PBS
"Lewis and Clark" web site |
