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    Conor McCabe Alexander Hamilton vs Thomas Jefferson The country is in serious debt. Our government has two completely different viewpoints and ideas in the Federalists and Republicans in Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. The ideas of Hamilton will be the only way for our government to have any success and riding our debt‚ establishing good credit‚ and keeping the country together. Hamilton has the brilliant idea of assuming all of the states debts. The government will get the states

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    From 1789 to 1799‚ Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson were powerful leaders who had contrasting views on how government should run. This time period was known as the Federalist Era. Leading up to this era was rebellion‚ the American Revolution‚ and the Critical Period. Rebellion broke out in the colonies after the colonists were fed up with being taxed without representation. This cry for freedom eventually lead to the American Revolution. The colonists vanquished the British and freed the United

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    11/7/13 DBQ #3: Hamiltonians VS Jeffersonians/Madisonians Alexander Hamilton was the sculptor who chiseled the rough edges of America’s economy away. He was the essential part in the plan to solve the massive war debt after the revolution. As a strong federalist‚ he had views that he and his party shared and were deemed fit for the refinement of America’s economy. Thomas Jefferson was his eternal rival in terms of views. Along with James Madison‚ Jefferson was the polar opposite to Hamilton. The two

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    What I am writing about is ‚ Hamilton and Jefferson. Hamilton played a role in the constitutional convention. Jefferson engineered a compromise. Between Hamilton and Jefferson there are many differences. If you want to know them ‚ just keep on reading. Hamilton played a role in the constitutional convention. He wrote 51 out of 85 Federalist paper. His main problem was the national debt. Were he thought the government assume on the entire debt in the federal government and states

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    Carson Mayes DBQ APUSH During the election of 1800‚ Jefferson ran for the Democratic-Republic party. His philosophy on government had always been to have a strict interpretation of the Constitution along with the strong belief in state rights over a strong central government that his opposing Federalist party wanted. His beliefs on a frugal and limited government‚ reduced army and navy‚ and the repeal of taxes were all issues that helped maintain his philosophy of government as well as

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    Regarding Shay’s Rebellion‚ Thomas Jefferson and John Hamilton would both have been against it albeit for different reasons. Jefferson would oppose the rebellion because of his faith in popular-rule. Hamilton‚ a strong believer in an elitist-government‚ would have opposed the rebellion simply because he would not have thought that the Shaysites were any different from the rest of the public who are uninformed and prone to acting out of their own passions. Jefferson had utter faith in the ability of

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    between Jefferson and Hamilton over the French Revolution. Jefferson and his Republican supporters were in favor of joining the revolutionaries‚ while Hamilton and the Federalists called for a neutral stance in relation to the fighting. This lead to the bisection of a previously cooperative government into two warring parties. In 1804‚ Hamilton‚ who had a disagreement with Jefferson ’s vice-president Aaron Burr‚ agreed to a duel in the outskirts of Weehawken‚ New Jersey. While Hamilton had reservations

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    Political disagreement has been apart of our government since the beginning. Thomas Jefferson has had an impact on these disagreements. Some people may think that Jefferson has set a bad example for future politicians‚ but I disagree. I think that Thomas Jefferson and his political colleagues set a good example for future politicians. He is polite‚ sincere‚ and sharp-witted. One reason Thomas Jefferson set a good example‚ was because he was polite. Anytime he wrote a letter‚ he always made sure

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    In the excerpt that we read from Adams Vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800‚ John Fleshing paints a picture in the readers head to help them understand what was going on between Adams‚ a federalist‚ and Jefferson‚ a democratic-republican. Even though I had to listen and read the excerpt several times to understand what was happening‚ there are a few things that I never knew about that I learned. For instance‚ I didn’t know that George Washington was a federalist‚ so that helped me understand

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    Devin Timms AP US History Jefferson/Madison DBQ During the presidencies of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison‚ the two political parties were still somewhat true to their founding ideas‚ but not completely. The different parties had started to let go of their strong stances and instead begin to take a more‚ middle of the road viewpoint. The Jeffersonians began to sway from their strict constructionism partly‚ as they passed things like the 1st Bank of the United States‚ which went against almost

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