1. Chapter 6 Section 1
The New Republic

2. Building the Federal Government
Electing a President (1789)
-President of the United States: George Washington- elected unanimously by the new electoral college
-Vice President: John Adams

3. Building the Federal Government
Setting up the Judiciary
-Judiciary Act of established a judiciary, or system of courts.
-established office of Attorney General
-First Chief Justice: John Jay

4. Building the Federal Government page
Setting up the Cabinet
-group of federal leaders who headed the major departments of the executive branch and advised the President
*What were the first four executive departments? Identify and describe them below.

5. Building the Federal Government
*What were the first four executive departments?
The State Department- conducted foreign policy (Thomas Jefferson)
The War Department- supervised national defense (Henry Knox)
The Secretary of the Treasury- managed nation’s finances (Alexander Hamilton)
Office of Attorney General- prosecute and defend cases on behalf of the federal government
(Edmund Randolph)

6. Hamilton’s Plan for Restructuring Debt
Copy the Diagram on page 194

7. The Whiskey Rebellion Whiskey Rebellion 1794 (western Pennsylvania)
-grain distilled into whiskey
-easier to transport to eastern markets
-farmers resisted the excise tax by intimidating and attacking tax collectors
*Hamilton commanded 12,000 militiamen to march west into region
-rebellion dissolved

8. A Two-Party System Emerges
Political Parties Compete for Power
-political parties- groups of people who seek to win elections and hold public office in order to shape government policy
1. Federalists- led by Hamilton and John Adams
2. Democratic Republicans- led by Jefferson and Madison
*Why would people support Federalists/Democratic Republicans? Is this what the framers of the Constitution wanted?