Terms to know:
Inaugurate – to be sworn in as president
Cabinet –departments to help the president
Tariff – tax on imported goods
Neutral – not siding with one country or the other
Foreign policy – relations with the governments of other countries
States’ rights – theory led by Jefferson and Madison that states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law
U.S. starts in debt –$52 million
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
pay off all war debts (France, Netherlands, Spain)
raise government revenues
create a national bank
Washington’s cabinet-
Secretary of War
Secretary of State
Secretary of Treasury – Alexander Hamilton
Attorney General
Now:(17+)
Supreme Court – 1789 Federal Judiciary Act
Gave S.C. 6 members Chief Justice and five associates
Now: 9 Whiskey Rebellion – W PA
Farmers staged rebellion against tax on whiskey
Washington sent the army to squash rebellion.
Gave Federal Govt. more clout
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Washington believed peace = prosperity
British still held forts N of the Ohio River – violation of Treaty of Paris
Washington sent troops to Ohio valley
Natives against US
NW Territory – US defeated Shawnee, Ottawa and Chippewa – British didn’t help natives
Site covered in trees that had fallen during a storm
12 tribes signed Treaty of Greenville – 1795
They agreed to cede (surrender) much of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the US government.
French Revolution – 1789
US remained neutral
French began seizing US ships (300 in 1797)
Ambassadors offered a bribe by French Agents (later known as XY and Z)
Give France 10 million and pay minister a bribe of $250,000
Known XWZ Affair
US said no, put more money into defense
Hamilton – Jefferson’s interpretation of the constitution
Hamilton believed that the power of the national government should be stronger than that of the states governments.
Jefferson and Madison believed that the Constitution discouraged the concentration of power in the federal government.
Strict interpretation – narrow
Loose interpretation – broad or flexible ; elastic clause
John Adams elected President – 1796
Adams reopened talks with France in Convention of 1800
Treaty cleared the way for US and French ships to sail the ocean in peace
Inaugurate – to be sworn in as president
Cabinet –departments to help the president
Tariff – tax on imported goods
Neutral – not siding with one country or the other
Foreign policy – relations with the governments of other countries
States’ rights – theory led by Jefferson and Madison that states had the right to judge when the federal government had passed an unconstitutional law
U.S. starts in debt –$52 million
Hamilton’s Financial Plan
- pay off all war debts (France, Netherlands, Spain)
- raise government revenues
- create a national bank
Washington’s cabinet-Secretary of War
Secretary of State
Secretary of Treasury – Alexander Hamilton
Attorney General
Now:(17+)
Supreme Court – 1789 Federal Judiciary Act
Gave S.C. 6 members Chief Justice and five associates
Now: 9
Whiskey Rebellion – W PA
Farmers staged rebellion against tax on whiskey
Washington sent the army to squash rebellion.
Gave Federal Govt. more clout
Battle of Fallen Timbers
Washington believed peace = prosperity
British still held forts N of the Ohio River – violation of Treaty of Paris
Washington sent troops to Ohio valley
Natives against US
NW Territory – US defeated Shawnee, Ottawa and Chippewa – British didn’t help natives
Site covered in trees that had fallen during a storm
12 tribes signed Treaty of Greenville – 1795
They agreed to cede (surrender) much of present-day Ohio and Indiana to the US government.
French Revolution – 1789
US remained neutral
French began seizing US ships (300 in 1797)
Ambassadors offered a bribe by French Agents (later known as XY and Z)
Give France 10 million and pay minister a bribe of $250,000
Known XWZ Affair
US said no, put more money into defense
Hamilton – Jefferson’s interpretation of the constitution
Hamilton believed that the power of the national government should be stronger than that of the states governments.
Jefferson and Madison believed that the Constitution discouraged the concentration of power in the federal government.
Strict interpretation – narrow
Loose interpretation – broad or flexible ; elastic clause
John Adams elected President – 1796
Adams reopened talks with France in Convention of 1800
Treaty cleared the way for US and French ships to sail the ocean in peace