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You are at an Anti-Federalist rally just after the constitution has passed. You have heard
Patrick Henry, George Clinton, and Otis Warren deliver lines like these…
" it is very easy to change a free government into an arbitrary one, but that it is very
difficult to convert tyranny into freedom."
"It is beyond a doubt that the new federal constitution, if adopted, will in a great measure
destroy, if it does not totally annihilate, the separate governments of the several states."
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What’s in a name?
George Washington was a reluctant leader. As we have seen this is one of the elements that
made him great. He was very particular in social situations and wanted to make sure that
his new title/office had the proper name.
Imagine you are a fly on the wall in 1788 what are some choices that may have worked?
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Alexander Hamilton showed up for work at the first Federal Government in this…
George Washington showed up being rowed across the Hudson in a convoy of 13 boats
representing the 13 colonies.
You are an eyewitness…
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The nation’s first government was located at the Federal building on Wall Street in New
York.
You are at New York today as part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, you catch wind of
this historical fact.
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Alexander Hamilton proposed a complex plan of debt realignment and assumption. The
plan called for:
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The creation of a national bank
The assumption of all state debts
The establishment of a national debt and credit system
The establishment of a national mint to print a common currency
The enactment of tariffs to promote infant US industries
Many states (particularly southern) were opposed to this. Bringing his native Virginia on
board to the plan was Thomas Jefferson, inviting his ally James Madison and nemesis
Alexander Hamilton to a dinner, during the dinner. Jefferson proposes that Madison silence
his opposition to the plan if Hamilton agrees to relocate the nations capital to Southern soil
(The District of Columbia).
Imagine you are either a “federalist or anti-federalist, northerner, southerner” and assess
this situation.
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