Survey of United States History Task Two The Early Republic and the American Civil War Western Governors University

A. Rise of Partisan Politics in the Early Republic Aaron Burr may get the credit for shooting Alexander Hamilton, but he wasnt the only sworn enemy to General George Washingtons Secretary of the Treasury. Secretary of state Thomas Jefferson has been qupted describing Hamilton as our Buonaparte (Ferling, 2016), with Hamilton describing Jeffersons politics as tinctured with fanaticism. (Ferling, 2016). The two differed on nearly everything, including the role of their own constitution. Hamilton and the Federalists posited that the nation would be more stable under a more powerful government, and that meant rewriting the Articles of...