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QUESTION
Two visions Lesson
Answer the questions below in 2 paragraphs each. For Question 1, there are two options. Answer either option A or option B. Question 2 is a primary source analysis question. Each answer is worth 5 points. For this Assignment, answer the following questions in 2 paragraphs each. Base your answers on the Dissent lesson. Use specific details to support your answers. Do not use outside sources. Do not copy or share answers.
Question Set 1: Pick one of the two options to answer. Only answer one option. If you answer both, only the first will earn points.
Option A:
Try to imagine that you are Thomas Jefferson hearing about events in Paris from a close friend. The close friend relays what the “fish ladies” did when they March on Versailles. Who were the “fish” ladies? What did they do? Why did they want the king and queen in Paris? What do the fish ladies tell us about women and work in 18th century France? How might the example of the “fish” ladies help us to understand why Thomas Jefferson lobbied to have the U.S. capital closer to his home state of Virginia rather than in New York or Pennsylvania? Be sure to explain your answer.
Option B:
Discuss Hamilton’s vision and Jefferson’s vision for the United States. How might the background of each have influenced his vision and policy proposals? (Use specific examples to support your answer.)
Question 2: Primary source analysis.
Complete the Two Visions lesson first to learn the historical context of the debate during the 1790s over what freedom of the press means. Read and analyze two primary source excerpts – the Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania of 1794 and the Sedition Act of 1798. Use the background included in the Two Visions lesson to help you fill out the first two lines of the Source Analysis Chart below (which party produced the source and the historical context). Then, base your answers for the last two lines of the Source Analysis Chart (what did each say and what was the concern of each) on your analysis of the primary sources.
As you fill out the chart, be sure to provide specific details/examples from the source to support your answer. If you quote the source, use quotation marks. (See next page for the primary source analysis chart.)
Address of the Democratic-Republican Society of Pennsylvania (1794)
Sedition Act (1798)
Which political party (Republican or Federalist) was behind the source? (In other words, which created the source?)
What was the historical context of each?
What did each say? (What did the Society argue and why? What did the law make illegal?)
What is the concern of the source? Supporting liberty (rights of the people) or support the government (politicians in power)?
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Answer
Module 4 Assignment: Two Visions
Hamilton’s and Jefferson’s visions for the United States
After the Revolutionary War had ended, George Washington assumed presidency, and subsequently appointed Alexander Hamilton as the Secretary of the Treasury, and Thomas Jefferson as the Secretary of State. From the beginning, Hamilton and Jefferson harbored different visions of the United States’ future. First, being a Federalist, Hamilton advocated for the establishment of a strong and active central government with many powers, whereas Jefferson, as a Republican, wanted the central government to have limited powers and control (Klein para. 7). Another area where the differed radically was the vision for the American economy. Hamilton’s economic strategy for the country included promoting the industrial sector to make American manufacturers self-sufficient under the mercantilist policy, establishing a national bank to strengthen the country’s financial system and promote commercial activities, and empowering the federal government to consolidate the state’s debts (U.S History). In comparison, Jefferson envisioned and proposed a future America that would hinge on the agrarian or agricultural economy; and also wanted the nation to have a free trade economic system.
Hamilton’s and Jefferson’s varying visions for the United States were largely influenced by their backgrounds. Hamilton had economic principles which he had learned from her mother as a shopkeeper as well as from his network of financiers and merchants in New York (U.S History). As such, he forested an America that would be driven by a capitalist economy by pushing for adoption of mercantilist and protectionist policies. Jefferson, on the other hand, proposed a future America that would be based on an agrarian economy because he owned a large tobacco plantation and had more than 100 workers who worked on the plantation as slaves (The American Yawp, para. 14).
References
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Klein, Christopher. "Whose Vision of America Won Out—Hamilton’s or Jefferson’s?" HISTORY, 12 June 2017, www.history.com/news/whose-vision-of-america- won-out-hamiltons-or-jeffersons. Accessed 14 Nov. 2020. The American Yawp. "Hamilton v. Jefferson: Conflicting visions for the new nation." Actively Learn, read.activelylearn.com/#teacher/reader/authoring/preview/966981/notes. Accessed 14 Nov. 2020. U.S History. "Hamilton's Financial Plan [ushistory.org]." US History, www.ushistory.org/us/18b.asp. Accessed 14 Nov. 2020. |