Mr. Johnson
U.S. History

Washington the Hero

Washington the Hero

Washington the Hero

Electing Washington

Inauguration in N.Y.C.

President & Vice President

Cabinet
Henry Knox,
Secretary of War
Edmund Randolph,
Attorney General

Cabinet
Thomas Jefferson,
Secretary of State
Alexander Hamilton,
Secretary of the Treasury

Washington, D.C.
Pierre L’Enfant
Benjamin Banneker

Report on Public Credit
• Secretary of Treasury
Alexander Hamilton
• Recommendations to pay off debt

Hamilton’s Economic Plan
• Assumption of State
Debts
• Tariffs
• Excise Tax on Whisky
• Sale of Government
Bonds
• National bank…
Elastic clause

Washington & Hamilton

Whiskey Rebellion
• Farmers’ revolt
• Washington’s response
– Sent 12,000 soldiers
– Rebellion ends
– Power of government to enforce the law

Judiciary Act of 1789

Northwest Indian War
• 1785-1795
• War for control over the
Northwest
Territory

“Mad” Anthony Wayne
• Battle of Fallen Timbers
– U.S. victory
– Ended major hostilities until 1811
• Negotiated Treaty of
Greenville

Treaty of Greenville
• 1796
• Representatives from 10 tribes cede much of present day Ohio, Illinois and Michigan

Indian Intercourse Act
• All land west of
Mississippi River is
“Indian Country”
• Established “factories”
(government-licensed trading posts)
• Factories were used as military outposts to push Native
Americans further off their land

Tecumseh
“No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth?
Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?”

Tenskwatawa & Tecumseh
• Shawnee religious leaders, brothers
• Resistance to
American expansion
• 1811 Battle of
Tippecanoe – burning of
Prophetstown

Death of Tecumseh

French Revolution

Neutrality – France & Britain

Citizen Edmond Genet
• French ambassador
• Sought aid of
Americans to attack British &
Spanish ships
• Denounced by
President
Washington

Jay’s Treaty
• Problems with Great Britain
– Impressment
– Western forts
– Trade
• The Treaty
– Britain leaves the forts and to trade
– Britain does not stop impressment
• Federalists lose support

Pinckney’s Treaty
• Treaty with Spain
– Boundary of Florida at 31 st parallel
– Shared navigation of the
Mississippi River

Pinckney’s Treaty

Farewell Address
• U.S. should avoid
– Political Parties
– Foreign
Entanglements

Washington’s Retirement
• Democracy, not monarchy
• Two term tradition
– FDR – four terms
– 22 nd Amendment

Mount Vernon, Va.

Washington’s Administration

Cabinet – Clashing Views
Democratic-
Republicans
Thomas Jefferson,
Secretary of State
Federalists
Alexander Hamilton,
Secretary of the Treasury

The First Two-Party System
Issue
Government: State or national?
Interpretation of the
Constitution: Strict or Loose?
Tariffs, Banks &
Business or farming?
Banks: National or
State?
Defense: Standing
Army or Militias?
Foreign Policy:
Support Britain or
Support France?
Regions of Support:
N, S, E, W?
Nullification
More important:
Order or Liberty?
Party Leaders &
Presidents
Federalists Democratic-Republicans
National State
Questions
1) Why does the Electoral
College encourage a twoparty system rather than a multiparty system?
2) Explain how Thomas
Jefferson’s election in the
“revolution” of 1800 changed the way the federal
(national) government operated.

Two Parties