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A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, 1806
The Apotheosis of Washington as seen looking up from the Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C.
Gilbert Stuart, John Adams, c. 1800-1815
President Thomas Jefferson
President James Madison

Traditionalist conservative party that was the first political party in the United States.

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The Capitol exalted classical republican virtues

Republicanism in the United States

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Use of the concept of republic, or the political ideals associated with it in the United States.

Use of the concept of republic, or the political ideals associated with it in the United States.

The Capitol exalted classical republican virtues

He and Chief Justice John Marshall made the Court a bastion of nationalism (along the lines of Marshall's Federalist Party) and a protector of the rights of property against runaway democracy.

Fisher Ames

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Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts.

Representative in the United States Congress from the 1st Congressional District of Massachusetts.

The Ames Tavern
Plaque on the Norfolk County Registry of Deeds

He was an important leader of the Federalist Party in the House, and was noted for his oratorical skill.

George Washington's Farewell Address

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Letter written by American President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States.

Letter written by American President George Washington as a valedictory to "friends and fellow-citizens" after 20 years of public service to the United States.

Portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart
Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic-Republican Party
Alexander Hamilton, the founder of the Federalist Party
This 1866 engraving depicts Washington praying at Valley Forge
Citizen Genêt was the French minister who interfered in U.S. politics

This included the state of foreign affairs, and divisions between the newly formed Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties.

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Essex Junto

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The Essex Junto was a powerful group of New England Federalist Party lawyers, merchants, and politicians, so called because many in the original group were from Essex County, Massachusetts.

1812 United States presidential election

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The seventh quadrennial presidential election.

The seventh quadrennial presidential election.

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Results by county explicitly indicating the percentage of the winning candidate in each county. Shades of blue are for Madison (Democratic-Republican) and shades of yellow are for Clinton (Federalist).
President James Madison
Vice President George Clinton (Died April 20)
Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall (Declined to Contest)

Taking place in the shadow of the War of 1812, incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Madison defeated DeWitt Clinton, who drew support from dissident Democratic-Republicans in the North as well as Federalists.

Portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy c. undefined 1845

John C. Calhoun

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American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina who held many important positions including being the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832, while adamantly defending slavery and protecting the interests of the white South.

American statesman and political theorist from South Carolina who held many important positions including being the seventh vice president of the United States from 1825 to 1832, while adamantly defending slavery and protecting the interests of the white South.

Portrait by George Peter Alexander Healy c. undefined 1845
Calhoun's wife, Floride Calhoun
Charles Bird King's 1822 portrait of Calhoun at the age of 40
State historic marker at Fort Hill, Calhoun's home from 1825 until his death in 1850
A portrait of Calhoun from 1834 by Rembrandt Peale
Calhoun, during his tenure as Secretary of State (April 1844 – March 1845)
Daguerreotype of Calhoun, c. 1843
Calhoun photographed by Mathew Brady in 1849, shortly before his death
Calhoun's grave at St. Philip's Church yard in Charleston
George Peter Alexander Healy's 1851 painting of Calhoun on exhibit at City Hall in Charleston, South Carolina
Calhoun's home, Fort Hill, on the grounds that became part of Clemson University, in Clemson, South Carolina
Undated photograph of Calhoun
John C. Calhoun postage stamp, CSA issue of 1862, unused
Confederate First issue banknote depicting both Calhoun and Andrew Jackson (Act of March 9, 1861)
John C. Calhoun statue in National Statuary Hall Collection at the U.S. Capitol

Yale was dominated by President Timothy Dwight, a Federalist who became his mentor.

William Cobbett, portrait in oils possibly by George Cooke, c. 1831 National Portrait Gallery (London)

William Cobbett

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English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey.

English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey.

William Cobbett, portrait in oils possibly by George Cooke, c. 1831 National Portrait Gallery (London)
William Cobbett's birthplace.
Cartoon of Cobbett enlisting in the army. From the Political Register of 1809. Artist James Gillray.
The Hampshire hog in the pound
Rural rides in the southern, western and eastern counties of England, 1930.
The introduction of horse-powered threshing machines to farms was one of the principal causes of the Swing Riots.
William Cobbett (left foreground), John Gully (middle) and Joseph Pease (right) (the first Quaker elected to Parliament) arriving at Westminster, during March 1833. Sketch by John Doyle.
The tomb of William Cobbett in the churchyard of St Andrew's church in Farnham.

He took the side of the Federalists, who were led by Alexander Hamilton, because they were more friendly to Britain than the pro-French Democrats led by Thomas Jefferson.

Portrait by Ezra Ames, between 1809–1810

Edmond-Charles Genêt

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The French envoy to the United States appointed by the Girondins during the French Revolution.

The French envoy to the United States appointed by the Girondins during the French Revolution.

Portrait by Ezra Ames, between 1809–1810
Portrait by Ezra Ames, between 1809–1810
President's House, Philadelphia. Washington confronted Genêt in the presidential mansion in Philadelphia, then the national capital.
Cornelia Clinton Genêt
Edmond Charles Clinton Genet on September 4, 1916. He was in the midst of his six-month training to become a fighter pilot

Washington sent Genêt an 8,000-word letter of complaint on Jefferson's and Hamilton's advice – one of the few situations in which the Federalist Alexander Hamilton and the Republican Jefferson agreed.

Louis XVI, who came to the throne in 1774

French Revolution

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Period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799.

Period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799.

Louis XVI, who came to the throne in 1774
By 1789, France was the most populous country in Europe.
The regional Parlements in 1789; note area covered by the Parlement de Paris
Caricature of the Third Estate carrying the First Estate (clergy) and the Second Estate (nobility) on its back
Meeting of the Estates General on 5 May 1789 at Versailles
The Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789; the iconic event of the Revolution, still commemorated each year as Bastille Day
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 26 August 1789
In this caricature, monks and nuns enjoy their new freedom after the decree of 16 February 1790.
The Fête de la Fédération on 14 July 1790 celebrated the establishment of the constitutional monarchy.
After the Flight to Varennes; the Royal family are escorted back to Paris
The storming of the Tuileries Palace, 10 August 1792
Execution of Louis XVI in the Place de la Concorde, facing the empty pedestal where the statue of his grandfather, Louis XV previously stood
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David (1793)
Nine émigrés are executed by guillotine, 1793
Georges Danton; Robespierre's close friend and Montagnard leader, executed 5 April 1794
The execution of Robespierre on 28 July 1794 marked the end of the Reign of Terror.
Former Viscount and Montagnard Paul Barras, who took part in the Thermidorean reaction and later headed the French Directory
Troops under Napoleon fire on Royalist insurgents in Paris, 5 October 1795
Napoléon Bonaparte in the Council of 500 during 18 Brumaire, 9 November 1799
French victory at the Battle of Valmy on 20 September 1792 validated the Revolutionary idea of armies composed of citizens
Napoleon's Italian campaigns reshaped the map of Italy
The Saint-Domingue slave revolt in 1791
A copy of L'Ami du peuple stained with the blood of Marat
Marche des Marseillois, 1792, satirical etching, London
Cartoon attacking the excesses of the Revolution as symbolised by the guillotine
A sans-culotte and Tricoloure
Club of patriotic women in a church
Olympe de Gouges, Girondist author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen, executed in November 1793
Early Assignat of 29 September 1790: 500 livres
The 1793 War in the Vendée was in part sparked by opposition to state persecution of the Catholic church
The Brabant Revolution broke out in the Austrian Netherlands in October 1789, inspired by the revolution in neighbouring France, but had collapsed by the end of 1790.

Under President John Adams, a Federalist, an undeclared naval war took place with France from 1798 until 1799, often called the "Quasi War".

Portrait by Rembrandt Peale (1823)

DeWitt Clinton

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Almost always spelled De Witt during his lifetime and until the late 20th century, was an American politician and naturalist.

Almost always spelled De Witt during his lifetime and until the late 20th century, was an American politician and naturalist.

Portrait by Rembrandt Peale (1823)
Gubernatorial portrait of Clinton.
Print showing Clinton mingling the waters of Lake Erie and the Atlantic, 1826.
Clinton Memorial by Henry Kirke Brown, 1855, at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
$1,000 Legal Tender note, Series 1880, Fr.187k, depicting DeWitt Clinton.

In the 1812 presidential election, Clinton won support from the Federalists as well as from a group of Democratic-Republicans who were dissatisfied with Madison.