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Crash Course US History Episode 9 "Where Politics Came From"

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A review of material corresponding to BTP Chapter 7

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hi I'm John Green this is Crash Course u.s. history and now do we have a constitution it's actually United States history and look at the birth of America's pastime stand face not football not eating I mean politics which has been adversary take me to when was the first big conflict in American politics last Constitution or Articles of Confederation I hope that I convinced you that we made the correct choice but regardless we made it the Constitution pass fundamental conflict came up what kind of country should we be supposed to be the policeman of the world and keep all the people in the green parts of not America from her sell me from the past  what time is it in America with put forward by Ranger Hamilton who served in the Washington's top and would go on to be his first Secretary of the Treasury strong personality and as you can see the beautiful wavy hair of a Caribbean God and he had very definite ideas about what he wanted American time which means did he believe that we should be deeply involved in World Trade stood in a plan to make Paterson New Jersey a manufacturing of which of course ultimately failed because New Jersey Jamaican manufacturing giant he needed a strong government that could build and protect but you already knew that he was in favor of a strong government because of course he wrote so many of The Federalist Papers that was governed primarily by the Federalist Party would be the one of the rich the able and the well I mean just think it's a Federalist Party had survived we might have had a bunch of like bushes and Kennedy's as president turn also wanted America to be firmly affiliated with Great Britain which isn't surprising given his passion for elitism in trade but there was an opposing view of what America should look like at its most associate Thomas Jefferson let's go to the most people being small-scale subsistence level farmers local markets but certainly not for international consumers there would be no international trade and he didn't want manufacturing either this small-scale local economy could must be served by a small-scale local governments not a surprise to the Anti-Federalists even though he benefited from the we got to be president and everything unlike the elitist Hamilton Jefferson was an avowed Democrat which meant that he distrusted concentrated power and privilege and believe that the masses could be safely govern themselves to him government and concentrated economic power we're greater threats to Liberty than a tyrannical majority Jefferson was a big fan of the French and not only because he's been a fair amount of time in Paris as our ambassador there what's the weather French treated Aristocrats that is brutal in general Jefferson and his party incredibly confusing preferred France just as the hamiltonians preferred Britain and this was a bit of a problem because France and England were pretty much constantly at war between 1840 + 1815 wanted more democracy and more free speech well sort of I mean during Washington's presidency democratic-republican societies 1794 the democratic-republican Society of Pennsylvania published in address which made the point that quote freedom of thought and two free communication of a chains by speech or through the medium of the press are the safeguards of our liberties as a threat sounds like the Republicans were better Democrats but it's a lot more complicated than that what democracy and for another many were supporters of the French Revolution in supporting the French Revolution after 1793 is pretty problematic spear with guillotining everyone up until the point where he himself would Guillotine presidential election there weren't any political party who was uncontested in George Washington when he didn't have to run for office you should only serve two terms in the idea that even if he was in general the President should wear civilian clothing the Federalist but he backed Hamilton's plan for a stronger Nation to that end Hamilton began the Great American tradition of having a five-point plan is credit worthiness government assume the debts that the states had amassed to create a national debt I'm hoping to give the rich people a stake in our nation's success public funds an issue notes that would circulate as currency and the bank would definitely be needed to house all the money that was expected to be raised from .40 whiskey tax then as now Americans like to drink and one sure way to raise money with the set and excise tax on Whiskey which might reduce drinking on the margins or cause people to switch to fear but definitely do is hurt small farmers who found the most profitable use of their grain was to distill it into sweet sweet whiskey Farmers as we will see in a moment think again position of expecting government to be limited by the text of the Constitution came to be known as strict construction but the Republicans name Hamilton's five point plan down to Four Points which is what they did in 1790 Republicans many of whom were Southerners like Jefferson struck a bargain they agreed to points 1 through 4 of Hamilton's plan in exchange for a permanent capital on the Potomac in the south is opposed to the first two temporary capitals of the u.s. in New York and Philadelphia economy one out for a while the most immediately controversial aspect of Hamilton's plan was the Whiskey tax and not just because people love to drink Ryan to whiskey into profit Western Pennsylvania Farmers even took up arms to protest the tax and that clearly could not stand for part of the way of force of 13000 men to put down this Whiskey Rebellion becoming the only sitting president to lead troops in the field and American continue to text Boo what is as it does to this day patchouli at war with France with whom the US technically had a Perpetual Alliance you know because they win the American Revolution they gave us the Statue of Liberty and Marion Cotillard French Revolution made things even more complicated because Republicans liked it but Federalist being somewhat conservative and elitist were afraid of it just was especially true in French finish your name showed up in 1793 and started hiring American ships to attack British 1 written in response began impressing American Sailors which sounds fun but it isn't Sabres wild Americans with their awesome mermaid tattoos that means they kidnapped him and forced them to serve in the British Navy Washington dispatch Secretary of State John Jay to deal with the impressment issue and he negotiate I'm boringly named Jay Treaty which improve trade relations between the US and Britain and said absolutely nothing about impressment or American shipping rates can ignore the problem there by inaugurating another presidential tradition kicking big foreign policy problems down the line for future presidents Washington disillusion politics is famous call for Unity said that with slight shades of difference you Americans have the same religion manners habits and political principles good morning against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally saying that it had to Tate's the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms Kindles the and lost city of one part against another foments occasionally Riot and Insurrection it opens the door to foreign influence and Corruption Adams to go over at the second president Americans had already divided themselves into two groups elitist Federalists and Republicans who stood for freedom and equality and now it's time for the mystery document the rules here are simple  I guess the author of the mystery document if I am right I do not get shocked if I am wrong I do get shocked alright let's give it a go yes you lower tihany sex our souls are by Nature equal to yours the same breath of God animates enlivens and invigorates us Rita grant that animals strength proved anything taking into consideration the accustomed in partiality of nature we should be induced to imagine that she had invested the mine with Superior strength as an equivalent for the bodily powers of man but waving this however palpable Advantage for equality Only We Wish contend so the author of the mystery document is a badass woman so we have between men and women Cady Stanton is too young also probably not funny enough  Stan official gas is Sarah Grimke well you know as part of the patriarchy I probably deserve this anyway quality spread to places where neither the male Federalist nor the male Republicans wanted them to go system because the vice presidency went to whom ever had the second-highest total number of electoral votes and that person happened to be Thomas Jefferson we ended up in a situation where the president and the vice president were on opposite sides of the political Spectrum which was not good so they change the Constitution but not until after the next election which featured another screw-up we are awesome at this what system would continue to misrepresent the will of the American voters most notably in 1876 1888 and 2004 election domestically Adams continued Hamilton's policy Adams presidency is best known for foreign problems Administration totally overreacted to problems with France commercial relationships with England was perpetually at war with France France ended up in a Quasi War with the United States despite our internal Alliance violent revolution and then after three French emissaries tried to extort a bribe from the US government as part of negotiations the so-called XYZ affair because we didn't Give the names of these bribes seeking French scoundrel the American public turned against France someone hysterically as it will and Sedition Act the alien the period of time it took a crime to criticize the government volume congressman from Vermont who was jailed for saying the John Adams was maybe not the best president ever and wall in jail lion won reelection to Congress which just how popular this love wasn't it was so unpopular that Virginia and Kentucky legislators passed resolutions against it claiming that it violated Americans Liberties in the legislators had the power to overturn or nullify any federal law that they found to violate the constitution is so business of nullification and states rights it will return in Sedition Acts were allowed to lapse under Jefferson and they didn't lead to widespread arrest of everyone who called Adams a tyrant or expressed admiration for the French Revolution and even though they weren't popular Doom the Federalist Party either even though no Federalist was elected president after Adams in the response to them from Virginia and Kentucky are important because they show us how settled American politics were in the first decade of this country's existing something as basic as freedom of speech was up for grabs his America tried to figure out what kind of country it was going be to think about when studying American history but it's also important to think about when looking at new democracies I think that Thomas Jefferson winning the presidential election of 1800 settled all this stuff but it wasn't so simple it never is really thanks for watching I'll see you next week written by my high school history teacher role Meyer and myself and our Graphics team is Dock Cafe geology upon other people where they will be answered by our team of historians don't forget to be awesome

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