Chapter 10

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  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    -Elected unanimously!!
    -Served 1788-1792, 1792-1796 (2 terms)
    • No precedent to follow, making it up as they went along!
    • First duty: - form “cabinet”
    -2nd duty: set up federal court system (Judiciary Act 1789)
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    Cabinet:
    Dept. of Treasury
    Attorney General
    Dept. of War
    Dept. of State
    John Knox
    John Jay
    Alexander Hamilton
    Edmund Randolph
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    -Judiciary Act (1789) established federal court system
    1.  set up federal appeals courts
    2.  set up federal circuit court
    3.  set up Supreme Court (w/ 5 judges, later raised to 9)
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    Economic problems a certainty!
    Hamilton’s influence:
    1.  Create positive  credit
    2.  Attract foreign investment
    3.  Raise revenue ($) for the gov’t. 
    4.  Create a manufacturing sector
    5.  Create a national bank
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    Hamilton’s reports (“Report on …”):
    1.  Public Credit
    • Gov’t. would pay off state debts for them
    2. Manufacturing
    • incentives (including tariffs) to promote industry
    3. National Bank
    • would issue paper $$, manage gov’t. funds
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    • Hamilton’s reports- CONTROVERSIAL!-  Why?
    ** called for a stronger and more assertive government than some Americans wanted
    • Some Americans wanted= farmer’s paradise (Jefferson, Madison)
    • Some Americans wanted= economic power like Britain (Hamilton, Adams)
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    Political Parties form:
    Federalists:
    1.  Supported by wealthy
    2.  Strong central government
    3.  Support trade
    4.  Loose interpretation  of Constitution (“It doesn’t say you can’t do it….”)
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    Political Parties form:
    Democratic-Republicans:
    1.  Supported by commoners, farmers
    2.  Stronger states
    3.  Support small business, farmers
    4.  Strict interpretation  of Constitution (“If it’s not in the Constitution, you can’t do it!”)
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    Whiskey Rebellion:
    1.  Hamilton called for tax on whiskey
    2.  PA corn farmers- full of corn-RAGE!
    3.  Tarred & feathered tax collectors
    4.  Refused to pay
    5. Washington & Hamilton led army to crush revolt
    6.  Shocked farmers caved in, paid
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    Foreign Affairs:
    French Revolution (1789)
    • French mobs overthrew King Louis XVI, took off his head  (& his pretty wife’s too!)
    • French launched attacks against Britain
    • Expected support from U.S.
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    Washington to France- 
    WE ARE NEUTRAL, SORRY!
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    Federalists
    • favored staying neutral, horrified at beheadings & violence
    Dem.-Reps
    • favored helping heroic French against corruption (king and royalty) AND enemy countries (Britain)
  • GEORGE WASHINGTON
    Other foreign affairs-
    1.  Pinckney’s Treaty- With Spain, opened Miss. River to U.S. trade
    2.  Defeat of Native Americans at Fallen Timbers, OHIO
    3.  Jay’s Treaty- With British, British agreed to leave forts west of Appalachian Mtns.