Chapter 10 Notes

Launching the new ship of state,[object Object],(1789-1800),[object Object]

The First President,[object Object],George Washington did not seek the presidency,[object Object],Electoral College unanimously chose him to be president,[object Object],John Adams became vice president,[object Object],George Washington takes the oath of office at Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan, April 30, 1789,[object Object]

Washington’s Cabinet,[object Object],Thomas Jefferson (VA) – Secretary of State,[object Object],Alexander Hamilton (NY) – Secretary of Treasury,[object Object],Henry Knox (MA) – Secretary of War,[object Object],Edmund Randolph (VA) – Attorney General ,[object Object]

Two More Tasks,[object Object],Congress drafted the Bill of Rights,[object Object],[object Object]

First Amendment – Free speech, press, religion, petition, & assembly

Second Amendment – Right to bear armsJames Madison,[object Object]

Protected the rights of the accused

Reserved powers to the people and the statesJames Madison,[object Object]

Two More Tasks,[object Object],Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789,[object Object],[object Object]

Authorized Supreme Court to review state court decisionsChief Justice John Jay,[object Object]

Alexander Hamilton,[object Object],Born in the West Indies ,[object Object],Served as an aide to Washington during the Revolutionary War,[object Object],Hoped to concentrate debt in the national government,[object Object],[object Object],Alexander Hamilton,[object Object]

National Debt,[object Object],US Debt = $54 million,[object Object],[object Object]

Some states (MA) supported the proposal, but others (VA) had already paid their debts

Compromise was reached following a meeting with Thomas Jefferson,[object Object]

In return, US capital (Washington, DC) would be in the South along the Potomac River,[object Object]

Help regulate state banksDoes the Constitution give the federal government the power to create a national bank?,[object Object]

Jefferson’s View,[object Object],Strict Interpretation,[object Object],[object Object]

Instead, this was a power reserved to the statesThomas Jefferson,[object Object]

Hamilton’s View,[object Object],Loose Interpretation,[object Object],[object Object]

Washington agreed and signed the Bank bill into law Alexander Hamilton,[object Object]

Whiskey Rebellion (1794),[object Object],To help raise revenue, the federal government placed an excise tax on whiskey,[object Object],[object Object]

Washington led a militia of 13,000 to stop the rebels

Demonstrated that the government would not allow for violent resistance to its policies,[object Object]

France,[object Object],Edmond Genet was received as a French diplomat,[object Object],Washington declared American neutrality in the European war,[object Object],Citizen Edmond Genet,[object Object]

Foreign Relations – Great Britain,[object Object],Strained Relations,[object Object],[object Object]

Also seized American ships and impressed American sailors into service,[object Object]

Evacuate military posts in the West

The British did not agree to stop seizing American ships in the futureChief Justice John Jay,[object Object]

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