Final Assessment

Now that you have learned about several of the key issues that divided Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, you will use the chart you completed throughout the lesson to answer this essential question:

Essential Question

Whose vision for the new nation, Thomas Jefferson’s or Alexander Hamilton’s, do you support, and why?

In your response, you will need to explain what Jefferson’s or Hamilton’s vision was, his reasons for taking the positions that he did, and why you think that his is the better vision for the new nation.