§ 211. ELECTION OF 1800 Federalist party: causes; describe and criticise con; results. original method of election of President and state d disadvantages; what changes were made by the lent? How far were they improvements? What I recommend, and why? GENERAL QUESTIONS e Federalist party under the following heads: promi services, errors; why was it natural and fortunate · should at first direct the destinies of the United tural and fortunate that it should fall? inciples of Neutrality, Principles of Consular Powers. >te-book list of constitutional questions which arose PICS FOR INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION Hamilton's statements of foreign debt, domestic debt, e his attitude toward each, and summarize his reasons Funding Bill (Guide, 332). compromise over Assumption (Guide, 332). Hamilton's argument on the constitutionality of the k; summarize Jefferson's argument (Guide, 334). the leading speeches on Jay's Treaty (279, second the repressive acts of 1798 (284, second reference). the Kentucky Resolutions, the Virginia Resolutions CHAPTER VIII THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICANS, 1801-1812 Books for Consultation General Readings. — Johnston's American Politics, 55-77; Higginson's Larger History, 344-365; Hart's Formation of the Union, 176-206; Walker's Making of the Nation, 168–229; Schouler's United States, II, ch. vii. Special Accounts. Wilson's Presidents; Schouler's Jefferson (M. A.); Morse's J. Q. Adams (S. S.); Gay's Madison (S. S.); Adams's John Randolph (S. S.); Roosevelt's Winning of the West; Larned's History for Ready Reference; Schouler's United States; *Hildreth's United States; Maurice Thompson's Louisiana. biographies of the leading statesmen, Guide, § 25. Larger Sources. Cooper and Fenton, American Politics; Stedman and Hutchinson, Library of American Literature; Benton's Abridgment; American History Leaflets; Williams's Statesman's Manual; Adams's New England Federalism. Writings of the leading statesmen, Guide, §§ 32, 33; MacDonald's Documents. Maps. - Mac Coun's Historical Geography; Hart's Epoch Maps; Winsor's America. Maclay's Bibliography. - Channing and Hart, Guide to American History, §§ 56a, 56 b (General Readings), §§ 167-171 (Topics and References). Illustrative Material. McMaster's United States; United States Navy; Goodrich's Recollections; Dwight's Travels; J. Q. Adams's Diary; Parton's Burr, Jackson, and Jefferson; Schuy ler's American Diplomacy; Sullivan's Familiar Letters; Basil Hall's Voyages and Travels; Drake's Making of the West. Bynner's Zachary Phips; Hale's Man Without a Country and Philip Nolan's Friends; Paulding's Diverting History of John Bull. THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICANS, 1801-1812 213. American Ideals, 1800. Before 1800, the Ameri- Rise of can people seemed to stand still, as if lost in the traditions American and prejudices of the past. The great political overturn inventive genius. which some writers call the Revolution of 1800, marks the point of time when this indifference gave way to an outburst of mental activity and to a fertility of invention that, in the life of one generation (1800-30), changed the American people into the energetic race it has ever since been. It lost much of its natural opposition to that which is new and prepared to take advantage of the great opportunities which the application of modern invention to the natural wealth of the United States placed within reach. At the same time, the American people sought to elevate the intellectual and the material position of the average citizen. These Numbers, 1800. Movement of the center of population tasks were difficult, the laborers were few, and a less hopeful race might well have been dismayed at the work before it. 214. Population in 1800.- The census of 1800 gives the total population of the United States as about five millions (5,308,483), in comparison with a population of four millions in 1790, and sixteen hundred thousand in 1760. At the beginning of the century the population of the British Islands was some fifteen millions, and that of France, over twenty-seven millions. These five million Americans were scattered over nearly three hundred thousand square miles of territory, that being the "settled area' according to the census. At least two thirds, or three and one half millions, lived on tide water, or within fifty miles of it. The remainder inhabited the slopes of the Alleghanies or the new settlements in the Northwest Territory, |