Federalist Era
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The Federalist Era in American history ran from 1788 to 1800, a time when the Federalist Party and its predecessors were dominant in American politics. During this period, Federalists generally contro
Washington's Inauguration at Philadelphia by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, 1932
President George Washington
Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton
James Madison opposed many of Hamilton's proposals.
Jeffersonian democracy
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Jeffersonian democracy or Jeffersonianism, named after its advocate Thomas Jefferson, was one of two dominant political outlooks and movements in the United States from the 1790s to the 1820s. The Jef
Federalist Era
…the presidency and the Democratic-Republicans took control of Congress. Jefferson accurately referred to the election as the "Revolution of 1800", as Jeffersonian democracy came to dominate the country in the succeeding decades. The Federalists experienced a brief resurgence during the War of 1812, but collapsed after the…
The 1805 Jefferson medallion portrait by Gilbert Stuart
Portrait of Thomas Jefferson by Rembrandt Peale in 1800
"We the People" in an original edition of the U.S. Constitution
The original treaty of the Louisiana Purchase