US History › Section D · Building a republic › Topic D.4
Federalists and Democratic-Republicans
The Constitution said nothing about political parties, yet within four years of Washington's inauguration Americans had split into two rival camps. The split began with Alexander Hamilton's plans for the nation's finances and grew into a contest over what the republic should become.
In this topic
- Launching the new government
- The Bill of Rights
- Hamilton and the debt
- The Report on Public Credit
- Worked example: the Compromise of 1790
- A national bank and the Constitution
- Revenue and manufactures
- Jefferson's agrarian republic
- Worked example: two visions, two parties
- Who counted as a citizen?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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