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Date Posted: 22:14:07 10/01/02 Tue
Author: Bezzzath
Subject: Ch7-The Federal City and the "People's President"

The Federal City and the “People President”
A. The District of Columbia, which is D.C.
1. During the Jeffersonian era there was a character of newly founded national capital
a. The city of Washington, (Washington D.C.)
2. Emerge a great and majestic city
a. Growing nationalism that the Federalist were promoting
b. A French architect Pierre L’Enfant designed the capital on a grand scale.
i. On the highest hill
ii. People believe that Washington was the going to be the Paris of France
3. The nation’s capital was moved from New York to Washington in 1800
4. The members of congress saw Washington D.C as a place to work and not home
5. Jefferson “The People’s President”
a. He was wealthy, aristocratic, owed 100 slaves
b. A man of rare cultivation and sophistication
i. The sought out to be ordinary by the public
ii. More relaxed kind of President
c. Managed to impress most everyone who knew him
i. A brilliant conversationalist, a gifted writer, intelligent and creative man
d. Jefferson was a shrewd and practical politician
i. Believe, like Washington, that federal offices should be filled with men of loyal to the principles and policies of the administration
e. Most of the government jobs were handed to the Republicans
i. That why he won in reelections in 1804

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