Prior to the onset of Hamilton debating with Jefferson, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the French Revolution, there was the process of Washington being elected for president by the Electoral College in 1789. In 1791, the Bill of Rights was written by James Madison and the Judiciary Act of 1789 created the federal court system. Thus leading to Alexander Hamilton wanting to develop a financial program that would help pay off debt and develop American manufacturing. He decided to insist on funding at par, which meant that the federal government would pay off its debts at face value plus interest. He supported the ideas of tariffs and even secured from Congress an excise tax on items, such as whiskey. He then created the National Bank which was to …show more content…
He chose to believe in a “loose” or “broad” interpretation of the constitution. Hamilton’s ideas were reluctantly accepted by Washington and were then sent into the public, which led to the Whiskey Rebellion- a tax protest, which Hamilton had helped George Washington with by encouraging him to summon a militia to stop the rebellion. Hamilton’s financial successes-the excise tax, the bank, the suppression of the Whiskey Rebellion-created some political issues. Hamilton had caused two political parties to emerge-Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans and Hamiltonian Federalists. The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans supported states' rights and a smaller government while Hamilton Federalists supported a powerful federal government. In 1789, the French Revolution, which the American people thought was a “second chapter of their own glorious Revolution”, started peacefully and eventually involved other European countries. It later became violent in 1792 when France declared war on Austria and to make matters worse, King Louis XVI was beheaded in 1793 and the church was attacked. The Reign of Terror had begun shortly after and that made the Federalist aristocrats nervous while the Jeffersonians believed that a few thousand aristocratic heads were a cheap price for freedom. The French Revolution eventually sucked Britain into