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Date Posted: 18:12:14 09/26/02 Thu
Author: *MaLlOrY*
Subject: Ch.6-The Republican Opposition

The Republican Opposition
A. Politicians believed that party system was wrong
1. Left out of the constitution
2. "The public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties"
B. The Federalist Party (denied it was a party) created for the common good
1. Used positions and power to gain allies
a. formed associations
2. Thought they were working for the good of the American people
3. Opposition thought they were doing the same thing as he corrupts British Government of early 1700's
4. Lead by Hamilton
C. The Republican Party formed in response to the "tyrannical" Federalists, only to become manipulative themselves
1. Not the same as the current Republican Party, est. 1850
2. 1790's had a greater apparatus of partisan influence
3. banding together to win local and state elections
a. justified be claiming that they alone represented the national interests
b. fighting against a conspiracy of the Federalists
D. both groups refused to concede to the other the right to exist and believed that they were the sole power fighting for the good of the nation
E. Republican party lead by Thomas Jefferson puritanically and ideologically
1. Jefferson considered himself a farmer and his beliefs reflected a decentralized society
a. Agrarian society full of sturdy independent farmers
b. Commercial activity - selling crops nationally and internationally
c. Industrial - thought US should develop manufacturing
d. feared too many industrial workers that had no land
F. Republicans supported the French Revolution and the Federalists felt horror
1. Republicans agreed with revolutionaries
a. imitated Jacobins
i. cut hair short
ii. called each other citizen
G. Federalists mostly in North East and Republicans in South West
H. Presidential Elections
1. Both Jefferson and Hamilton urged Washington to run again
a. he was thought to be neutral
b. he mostly sided with federalists

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