Sources for Research on Political Issues and Parties in Early America

Go back and review the section in your reading on political parties and then gather from the documents below evidence about various political points of view. What kinds of issues bestirred Americans at that time? Do you find consistency in political viewpoints? Does any of it remind you of current political issues?

Documents:

• Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
• Madison's War Message to Congress
• Resolutions of the Hartford Convention
• Marbury v. Madison
• Dartmouth College v. Woodward
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• McCullough v. Maryland
• Jefferson on Education
• Jefferson on the Missouri Compromise
• The Monroe Doctrine
• South Carolina on the Tariff of 1828
• South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832
• Jackson's Reply to South Carolina
• Daniel Webster's Union Address
• Jackson's Bank Veto
• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
• Henry Clay on Political Power and Andrew Jackson
• Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America
• The Seneca Falls Declaration on Women's Rights

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