1. 4-4.5 Party People!
4-4.5: Compare the social and economic policies of the two political parties that were formed in American in the 1790s.

2. As the new country of the United States of America was formed citizens had different economic and political views that conflicted.

3. Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton led the 2 different groups by forming 2 opposing political parties in th 1790s

4. The Federalist Party was led by Alexander Hamilton.

5. Federalists included businessmen, large landowners, and professional people

6. Federalists believed that the country should grow and expand through industrialization

7. Federalists , who had supported the writing and ratification of the Constitution believed that the federal government should be stronger than the state government

8. This was in order to have a stronger and more unified country, rather than the loose union (confederation or confederacy) of states it was under the Articles of Confederation.

9. Federalists believed that educated people should lead the government.

10. Federalists felt that the federal government should be should have a sound financial system in order to grow.

11. This would require a system of taxes to repay national debts (to war allies and those who served the new United States or loaned it money) and a National Bank to handle these matters.

12. Federalists modeled their government after the British government.

13. Despite the fact that the US was independent from the British mother country, the Federalists believed in the heritage of English traditions (such as the rights of Englishmen) and they therefore wanted their governments that all former colonists were used to.

14. Thomas Jefferson led the Democratic-Republican Party.

15. The Democratic-Republican Party included mostly farmers and common people.

16. Agrarian means dividing the land equally and living off it

17. Thomas Jefferson believed in an agrarian society.

18. Jefferson and most of his followers believed that most of the power of government should lie in the state governments and the federal government should remain weak

19. His followers believed that the state governments were closer to the common man ( because of their close ties to the soil and therefore did not need education)

20. The Democratic-Republican admired the French, because the French had been the major allies of the US in the Revolution and they believed the new French government to be following in the footsteps of the American Revolution.