Early Presidents

George Washington

The Whiskey Rebellion

Western farmers thought unfair Started rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion Washington led army to stop the rebellion.

Farewell Address Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally... It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

Farewell Address The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none; or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear. Farewell Address

John Adams

Alien & Sedition Acts

Thomas Jefferson

Election of 1800 F e d e r a l i s t D e m o c r a t i c - R e p u b l i c a n Peaceful transfer of power from one political party to another.

Louisiana Purchase

To Buy? Jefferson’s Dilemma Not To Buy? That is the question BUY!!

Louisiana Purchase

Lewis and Clark Expedition Corps of Discovery Meriwether Lewis William Clark Chart plants & animals Map land Establish good relations with Native Americans Find water route to Pacific

James Madison

Impressment of U.S. sailors Trade Interference Arming native Americans

Increased national pride! Increased manufacturing Native American resistance weakened

James Monroe

Missouri wanted to enter the Union as a slave state… PROBLEM… That would upset the balance of free and slave states in Congress!! SOLUTION #1- Missouri is a slave state #2- Maine is a free state #3- Slavery is banned in all territories north of Missouri’s southern border (36 30’ N)

1823 Warned Europe not to mess with North or South America

Andrew Jackson

Winner! Born poor Rose to success through hard work War Hero No higher education

Nullification Crisis 1828: Congress passed “Tariff of Abominations” Southern States wanted to Nullify

Nullification Crisis John C. Calhoun Vice President Supported State’s Rights and Nullification

Nullification Crisis National government is ONE country State’s cannot nullify the laws. Daniel Webster S a i d …

Nullification Crisis Compromise reached: tariffs lowered SC threatens to secede if troops are sent Andrew Jackson threatens to send troops Calhoun resigns

Indian Removal Act 1830 Removed Native Americans who lived in the east

Indian Removal Act to lands in the west (Indian Territory)

Gold land

1838 Cherokee removed Trail of Tears- ¼ died Winter of Choctaw removed 1836 Creek Tribe removed Chickasaw removed Seminole Tribe fought removal through two wars- never left Florida.