UNIT III: THE NEW REPUBLIC
CH.10, LAUNCHING A NEW SHIP OF STATE, 1789-1790
TOPIC: THE EARLY REPUBLIC
I.
George Washington’s Presidency
A. A New Ship on an Uncertain Sea
1. Population Makeup
2. Early Concerns
3. Financial Concerns
B. Washington’s Profederalist Regime
1. Washington Elected
2. Washington and the Cabinet
C. The Bill of Rights
1. Adding Amendments/James Madison
2. Bill of Rights = Principles
3. 9th & 10th Amend. = Significance
4. Judiciary Act 1789
D. Hamilton Revives the Corpse of Public Credit
1. Sec. of Tres., Alexander Hamilton
2. Hamilton’s Financial Plan
a. National Credit/Fund National Debt
b. Results
c. Funding State Debts (Why?)
d. Bargains
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E. Customs Duties and Excise Taxes
1. Hamilton’s Political Objectives
2. Hamilton’s Plan: How to Pay
a. Tariff & Goal
b. Excise Tax
F. Hamilton Battles Jefferson for a Bank
1. Hamilton’s Financial Plan = Bank
a. Proposal
b. Reasons For
2. Jefferson’s Arguments
3. Hamilton’s Response
4. Outcome
G. Mutinous Moonshiners in Pennsylvania
1. Whiskey Rebellion
a. Causes/Issues
b. Washington’s Response
c. Significance
H. The Emergence of Political Parties
1. Opposition to Hamiltonian Policies
a. Issues for Resentment
b. Beliefs of Politcal Parties
2. Party Forms: Jefferson & Madison
I. The Impact of the French Revolution
1. Federalist View
2. Democratic Republicans (Jeffersonians) View
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J. Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation
1. Franco-American Alliance 1778
2. Democratic-Republican View
3. Washington’s View
a. Reasons
b. Neutrality Proclamation of 1793
4. Citizen Genet
a. Beliefs
b. Actions
c. Results
K. Embroilments with Britain
1. British and Western Frontier (Battle of Fallen Timbers)
2. British and Sea Frontier
3. Results
L. Jay’s Treaty and Washington’s Farewell
1. Jay’s Treaty
a. Provisions
b. Jeffersonian’s Reaction
c. Consequences
2. Washington’s Farewell Speech
a. Advice
3. Washington’s Contributions
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CH.10, LAUNCHING A NEW SHIP OF STATE, 1789-1790
II. The John Adam’s Presidency
A. “Bonny Johnny” Adams Becomes President
1. Election of 1796
a. Candidates/Parties
b. Issues
c. Result
2. Handicaps
B. Unofficial Fighting with France (Quasi War)
1. French Reaction to Jay’s Treaty
2. Adam’s Response
3. X,Y,Z Affair
a. Issues
b. American Reaction
c. Results/Peace of Quasi War(Keep reading into next section)
C. The Federalist Witch Hunt
1. Alien Act/Law
a. Provisions
b. Supporters
2. Sedition Act
a. Provisions
b. Actions
c. Supporters
3. Results
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D. The Virginia(Madison) and Kentucky (Jeffersonian) Resolutions
1. Provisions/”Compact Theory”
2. Results/Reactions
3. Significance (state’s rights)
E. Federalists versus Democratic-Republicans
1. Federalists = Beliefs
a. Leader(s)
b. Government
c. Favored Economy
d. Foreign Policy
e. Interpretation of Constitution
f. Supporters
2. Democratic Republicans = Beliefs
a. Leader(s)
b. Government
c. Favored Economy
d. Foreign Policy
e. Interpretation of Constitution
f. Supporters
3. America at the end of the 1700s
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