Unit 4, Washington Day 2

Based on the readings and prior knowledge, answer the following questions using complete sentences to form a paragraph.

Why did President Washington not want political parties?

What were the differences between the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalist?

Using complete sentences to create a paragraph, answer the following question: According to the excerpt below from Washington's Farewell Address, why did he emphasize the importance of civic virtue?

"The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prospeerity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize...[it] is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it...

For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections."

  -- President George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796