WASHINGTON’S FAREWELL ADDRESS

• IN IT, HE WARNED OF POLITICAL FACTIONALISM

• WARNED OF ENTANGLING ALLIANCES (FRANCE….I’M LOOKING AT YOU….)

• HAD A DEEPLY DIVIDED ADMINISTRATION HALF FEDERALISTS AND HALF ANTI

FEDERALISTS

THE RISE OF POLITICAL PARTIES

• FEDERALISTS AND REPUBLICANS MARKED NEW STAGE IN AMERICAN

POLITICS

• KNOWN AS THE FIRST PARTY SYSTEM

• DEEPLY DIVIDED OVER A. HAM’S FISCAL POLICIES

• MERCHANTS AND CREDITORS SUPPORTED FEDERALISTS

• FARMERS AND IMMIGRANTS SUPPORTED REPUBLICANS

RISE OF PARTY POLITICS

• ELECTION OF 1796 MARKED THE FIRST POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING

• IN ELECTION OF 1796, VOTERS GAVE MAJORITY IN CONGRESS TO FEDERALISTS

AND JOHN ADAMS BECAME PRESIDENT.

• ADAMS UNDERGOES X,Y,Z AFFAIR WHICH RESULTS IN STOPPING TRADE WITH

FRANCE AND AUTHORIZING AMERICAN PRIVATEERING

ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS

• ADAMS THEN ISSUED THE ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS

• B.C FEDERALISTS BEGAN TO TAKE A HARD LINE TOWARDS FRENCH

IMMIGRANTS

• NATURALIZATION ACT- LENGTHENED RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT FOR

AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP

• ALIEN ACT- AUTHORIZED DEPORTATION OF FOREIGNERS

• SEDITION ACT- PROHIBITED PUBLICATION OF INSULTS OR MALICIOUS

ATTACKS ON THE PRESIDENT

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

• SEDITION ACT SPARKED CONGRESS TO SAY IT REPRESSED THE 1ST

AMENDMENT

• INSTEAD OF USING SUPREME COURT TO INTERPRET CONSTITUTIONALITY,

LOOKED TO STATE LEGISLATURES.

• THIS IS THE VA-KT RESOLUTIONS WHICH SET FORTH A STATES’ RIGHTS

INTERPRETATION OF THE CONSTITUTION

• SETS THE STAGE FOR THE ELECTION OF 1800

REVOLUTION OF 1800

• BITTER NO HOLD BARRED CONTEST

• BOTH PARTIES CHANGED STATE ELECTION LAWS TO BENEFIT THEIR

CANDIDATES

• RUMORS CIRCULATED OF FEDERALIST PLOT TO STAGE A MILITARY COUP

• TJ WON A NARROW VICTORY OVER ADAMS IN ELECTORAL COLLEGE.

• BURR GOT VOTES AS WELL…73…SAME NUMBER AS TJ

ELECTION OF 1800

• CONSTITUTION STATES THAT IN EVENT OF PREZ TIE, ELECTION IS DECIDED IN

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

• 35 ROUNDS OF BALLOTING AND WE STILL DIDN’T HAVE A PREZ….

• ENTER A. HAM….HE URGED KEY FEDERALISTS TO VOTE FOR TJ INSTEAD OF

BURR

• SO, TJ BECAME PREZ AND THERE WAS A BLOODLESS TRANSFER OF POWER

MYSTERY DOCUMENT MONDAY

• NAME, DATE, PERIOD

• TELL ME THE FOLLOWING:

1. AUTHOR AND/OR WHAT IS THE DOCUMENT?

2. AUDIENCE

3. WHAT IS IS ABOUT?

2ND PERIOD

“A WELL REGULATED MILITIA, BEING NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE

STATE, THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS, SHALL NOT BE

INFRINGED.”

5TH PERIOD

“THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO BE SECURE IN THEIR PERSONS, HOUSES, PAPERS,

AND EFFECTS, AGAINST UNREASONABLE SEARCHES AND SEIZURES, SHALL NOT

BE VIOLATED, AND NO WARRANTS SHALL ISSUE, BUT UPON PROBABLE CAUSE,

SUPPORTED BY OATH OR AFFIRMATION, AND PARTICULARLY DESCRIBING THE

PLACE TO BE SEARCHED, AND THE PERSONS OR THINGS TO BE SEIZED.”

6TH PERIOD

“CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF

RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; OR ABRIDGING THE

FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE

PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS

OF GRIEVANCES.”