Topic lessons based on selected documents across the site These topics fit into a general study of the Early Republic as part of the narrative for a survey class. Analysis of the documents rests in the hands of the students, guided mainly by the topic heading. The Voice of the people America and Native Americans 1. Creation of the departments, appointment and removal.
Students research to find evidence of each of the three levels.
Consider what the different advocacy groups were and what was their motivation for arguing their position. The FFC was involved in funding the government, establishing confidence in the nations fiscal responsibilities, repayment of debts, looking to the future. The decision to place the Capital on the Potomac was not quick or uncontested. There were critical tensions between Federalists and Antifederalists, quasi-monarchists and republicans, formal rules and personal and popular practice which set the precedents which define the Presidency and our democracy even today. Students research the controversies and practices which developed as the constitutional form of the executive became functional.