Go to the websites listed below and then answer the questions that follow.

The Annals of Congress
(http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwac.html)
The record of the U.S. Congress from 1789 to 1824.

Inventing Alexander Hamilton: The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance
(http://bostonreview.net/BR32.6/hogeland.php)
An interesting contemporary discussion and conversation about Alexander Hamilton's impact on American politics and government.

Andrew Jackson
(http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/aj7.html)
Site featuring information about the seventh president of the United States, essays about him and his administration, and selections from his speeches.

1			James Madison and Benjamin Franklin both cautioned against what specific thing in American politics? How do you think they would comment on the political situation in the United States today?
2			Is the war of words in the Boston Review more or less heated than the disputations between Hamilton and his opponents? Why or why not?
3			What present-day political party did Andrew Jackson found?