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NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 8 “Contested Republic: 1789 – 1800”
COMMON THREADS
 What were the continuing disagreements about the power of a central
government?
 What were the conflicting values and ideas of citizenship?
 How did the new nation negotiate with the European powers?
 What was the status of slavery in the early republic?
OUTLINE
The United States in 1789
Lands and People
Ways of Living
The First Emancipation Movements
American Landscape: Philadelphia
Conflicting Visions of Republican Society
America and the World: Transatlantic Talk About the Rights of
Women
The Culture of the Republic
The Struggle to Form a Government
The States and the Bill of Rights
Congress Begins Its Work
Political Economy and Political Parties
Controlling the Borderlands
America in the Transatlantic Community
Other Revolutions
Between France and England
To the Brink of War
The Administration of John Adams
Conclusion
WHO?
WHAT?
George Washington
Strict construction of
Thomas Jefferson
the Constitution
James Madison
Loose construction
Alexander Hamilton
Political virtue
John Adams
Abigail Adams
William Manning
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What were the key elements of Hamilton’s fiscal and economic
policies?
2. What were the first two political parties in the federal republic? Who
led each, and how did the two parties differ?
3. Who were “the Few and the Many”?
4. How did the Whiskey Rebellion reflect larger tensions in the early
republic?
5. The constitution did not define “citizenship.” What early laws and
policies do you think gave practical meaning to the idea of citizenship?
Do you think everyone agreed on who was included and who was not?
NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS