Directions: Grade the presidency of George Washington by dragging the terms to their correct location and completing the comments below:
GW’s Assignments
Assignment Description
Grade
Comments
What challenges did Washington
have during his administration?
Summarize and explain each assignment.
Do you think GW did a good
or a poor job?
Write at least ONE complete sentence explaining why you
think Washington did a good or a poor job with this
assignment. Use the information in the description to help
you write your answers.
Cabinet Selection
(1789)
A __________ is a group of people who advise
the president. Washington created the first and
possibly the greatest cabinet in the history of the
nation. Washington’s cabinet included:
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__________ Sec. of State
__________ Sec. of the Treasury
__________ Sec. of War
A “precedent” is: _______________________
Establishing
Presidential
Precedents
Washington created the precedent of calling the
President of the United States _____________.
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Washington created the precedent of a president
only serving in office for __________________.
Washington added the words _______________
to the Oath of Office.
Word Bank For This Section:
2 Terms
Constitution
Adams
Hamilton
Randolph
an example for future presidents
monarchy
a decided court
case
I don’t want to be president
Knox
Jefferson
cabinet
Mr. President
so help me God
GW’s Assignments
Assignment Description
Grade
Comments
What challenges did Washington
have during his administration?
Summarize and explain each assignment.
Do you think GW did a good
or a poor job?
Write at least ONE complete sentence explaining why you
think Washington did a good or a poor job with this
assignment. Use the information in the description to help
you write your answers.
Hamilton’s Financial Plan included selling new
Compromise and
A New Capital
(1790)
__________ to pay off the national debt.
Hamilton also wanted to pay off each state’s
_________ and establish a national _________.
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Jefferson did not like Hamilton’s plan.
Washington got both sides to compromise. The
nation would use Hamilton’s _________ but also
build a new capital today known as
__________________.
Whisky Rebellion
(1794)
Part of Hamilton’s financial plan was to place ae
tax on __________. Farmers in western P.A.
used to turn their corn into whisky in order to
transport their crops across the _____________
Mountains.
/10
When the farmers __________ to oppose the tax,
Washington
lead the __________ to put down the rebellion.
This action showed the nation that the new
federal government had __________ and that
the new ________________ worked.
Word Bank For This Section:
cars
Appalachian
rebelled
whisky
guns
Washington D.C.
case
bonds
constitution
Bank
debt
Philadelphia
Plan
Rockies
power
army
GW’s Assignments
Assignment Description
Grade
Comments
What challenges did Washington
have during his administration?
Summarize and explain each assignment.
Do you think GW did a good
or a poor job?
Write at least ONE complete sentence explaining why you
think Washington did a good or a poor job with this
assignment. Use the information in the description to help
you write your answers.
England and France were once again at
Washington’s
“Neutrality
Proclamation”
(1793)
__________. Both sides tried to draw the United
States into the conflict. France who also
had a revolution sent a diplomat named Citizen
Gene to ask the United States to join the war on
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the side of the ______________.
Washington realizing that the nation was not
__________ enough yet to go to war issued the
“Neutrality Proclamation”.
The Neutrality Proclamation said:
___________________________________.
The Jay Treaty was a failed treaty made with
____________. The English were disturbing our
Jay Treaty (1795)
____________ with other European nations.
Jay promised that the United States would pay off
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___________ from before the Revolution if
England agreed to leave our _____________
alone. The Jay Treaty was very _____________
with most Americans and was not approved.
Word Bank For This Section:
French
popular
war
peace
Dutch
English
England
shipping
France
Spanish
Spain
strong
weak
land
trade
The U.S. would not take sides in the war
debt
unpopular
The U.S. would go to WAR against England!
GW’s Assignments
Assignment Description
Grade
Comments
What challenges did Washington
have during his administration?
Summarize and explain each assignment.
Do you think GW did a good
or a poor job?
Write at least ONE complete sentence explaining why you
think Washington did a good or a poor job with this
assignment. Use the information in the description to help
you write your answers.
Before leaving office, Washington gave a
__________ known as
Washington’s
“Farewell
Address” (1797)
his _________________. This became another
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presidential __________ set by Washington.
In it he warned the nation of 2 things:
1. Avoid __________ parties
2. Avoid __________ entanglements
Word Bank For This Section:
speech
wild
Foreign
precedent
political
Farewell Address
Farewell Tour
Electrical wire
debt
peace