b. What are the features of the present Naturalization Act? c. Under what headings in note-book must matter in § 209 be entered? Why are the "compact theory" and "nullification" spoken of as premise and conclusion? Why is Madison called the "Father of the Constitution"? Has his testimony in the Virginia Resolutions as to the nature of the Constitution any value? Carefully define interposition, nullification. § 211. ELECTION OF 1800 a. Breach in Federalist party: causes; describe and criticise conduct of opponents; results. b. Explain the original method of election of President and state its advantages and disadvantages; what changes were made by the Twelfth Amendment? How far were they improvements? What method would you recommend, and why? GENERAL QUESTIONS a. Consider the Federalist party under the following heads: promi nent men, theory, services, errors; why was it natural and fortunate that such a party should at first direct the destinies of the United States? Why natural and fortunate that it should fall? b. Look up Principles of Neutrality, Principles of Consular Powers. c. Enter in note-book list of constitutional questions which arose during this period. TOPICS FOR INDIVIDUAL INVESTIGATION a. Summarize Hamilton's statements of foreign debt, domestic debt, state debts; define his attitude toward each, and summarize his reasons (Guide, 332). b. Explain the Funding Bill (Guide, 332). c. Explain the compromise over Assumption (Guide, 332). d. Summarize Hamilton's argument on the constitutionality of the United States Bank; summarize Jefferson's argument (Guide, 334). e. Summarize the leading speeches on Jay's Treaty (279, second reference). f. Summarize the repressive acts of 1798 (284, second reference). g. Summarize the Kentucky Resolutions, the Virginia Resolutions (286, 287). 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. Larger biographies of the leading statesmen, Guide, § 25. 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, §§ 56 a, 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, |