Federalist Era

1788 - c.1800

Related reading from the Discovery Techbook:

Chapter 5, Section #1, Explore

Chapter 5, Section #2, Explore

Students will learn about:

• precedents established by our first president.

•  domestic and foreign threats to the United States and foreign policy created by our first two presidents.

• how the conflicts between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton resulted in the emergence of two political parties (e.g. view of foreign policy, Alien and Sedition Acts, economic policy, National Bank, funding and assumption of the revolutionary debt).