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_a_. Write an account of life in the United States about 1790, or life in Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Charleston.

_b_. Prepare a table of the two political parties mentioned, with dates and account of origin. As you go on, note upon this table changes in these parties and the rise of new ones.

_c_. On an Outline Map color the thirteen original states and then fill in, with dates, new states as they are admitted. Write on each state F.

for free or S. for slave, as the case may be.

TOPICS FOR SPECIAL WORK

_a_. Early life of Was.h.i.+ngton, John Adams, Jefferson, or Hamilton.

_b_. Was.h.i.+ngton's Farewell Address.

SUGGESTIONS

In this period we meet two questions, which are still important, tariff legislation and political parties. In connection with the Tariff Act of 1789 (-- 200), touch upon the industries of the different sections of the country and explain how local interests affected men's actions. Show how compromise is often necessary in political action.

It is a good plan to use Outline Maps to show the important lines of development, as the gradual drifting apart of the North and the South on the slavery question.

Ill.u.s.trate by supposed transactions the working of Hamilton's financial measures. By all means do not neglect a study of Was.h.i.+ngton's Farewell Address. Particular attention should be given to the two views of const.i.tutional interpretation mentioned in -- 207, and considerable time should be spent on a study of ---- 224 and 225.

[Ill.u.s.tration: THE UNITED STATES IN 1800.]

VIII

THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLICANS, 1801-1812

Books for Study and Reading

References.--Higginson's _Larger History_, 344-365; Scribner's _Popular History_, IV, 127-184; Schouler's _Jefferson_.

Home Reading.--Coffin's _Building the Nation;_ Drake's _Making the Ohio Valley States;_ Hale's _Man Without a Country_ and _Philip Nolan's Friends._

CHAPTER 22

THE UNITED STATES IN 1800

[Sidenote: Area.]

[Sidenote: Population.]

228. Area and Population, 1800.--The area of the United States in 1800 was the same as at the close of the Revolutionary War. But the population had begun to increase rapidly. In 1791 there were nearly four million people in the United States. By 1800 this number had risen to five and one-quarter millions. Two-thirds of the people still lived on or near tide-water. But already nearly four hundred thousand people lived west of the Alleghanies. In 1791 the centre of population had been east of Baltimore. It was now eighteen miles west of that city (p. 157).

[Sidenote: Philadelphia.]

[Sidenote: New York.]