1. Building the New Nation
Mr. Johnson
U.S. History

2. George Washington’s Presidency

4. Washington the Hero

5. Washington the Hero

6. Washington the Hero

7. Electing Washington

8. Inauguration in N.Y.C.

9. President & Vice President

10. Domestic Issues

11. Cabinet
Henry Knox, Secretary of War
Edmund Randolph, Attorney General

12. Cabinet Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State
Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury

13. Washington, D.C.
Pierre L’Enfant
Benjamin Banneker

14. Report on Public Credit
Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton
Recommendations to pay off debt

15. Hamilton’s Economic Plan
Assumption of State Debts
Tariffs
Excise Tax on Whisky
Sale of Government Bonds
National bank… Elastic clause

16. Washington & Hamilton

17. Whiskey Rebellion Farmers’ revolt Washington’s response
Sent 12,000 soldiers
Rebellion ends
Power of government to enforce the law

18. Judiciary Act of 1789

19. Indian Affairs

21. Northwest Indian War
War for control over the Northwest Territory

22. “Mad” Anthony Wayne Battle of Fallen Timbers
U.S. victory
Ended major hostilities until 1811
Negotiated Treaty of Greenville

23. Treaty of Greenville
1796
Representatives from 10 tribes cede much of present day Ohio, Illinois and Michigan

24. Indian Intercourse Act
All land west of Mississippi River is “Indian Country”
Established “factories” (government-licensed trading posts)
Factories were used as military outposts to push Native Americans further off their land

25. Tecumseh
“No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?”

26. Tenskwatawa & Tecumseh
Shawnee religious leaders, brothers
Resistance to American expansion
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe – burning of Prophetstown

27. Death of Tecumseh

28. Foreign Affairs

29. French Revolution

30. Neutrality – France & Britain

31. Citizen Edmond Genet French ambassador
Sought aid of Americans to attack British & Spanish ships
Denounced by President Washington

32. Jay’s Treaty Problems with Great Britain The Treaty
Impressment
Western forts
Trade
The Treaty
Britain leaves the forts and to trade
Britain does not stop impressment
Federalists lose support

33. Pinckney’s Treaty Treaty with Spain
Boundary of Florida at 31st parallel
Shared navigation of the Mississippi River

34. Pinckney’s Treaty

35. Washington’s Legacy

36. Farewell Address U.S. should avoid Political Parties
Foreign Entanglements

37. Washington’s Retirement
Democracy, not monarchy
Two term tradition
FDR – four terms
22nd Amendment

38. Mount Vernon, Va.

39. The First Party System

40. Washington’s Administration

41. Cabinet – Clashing Views
Democratic-Republicans
Federalists
Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State
Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury

42. The First Two-Party System
Issue
Government: State or national?
Interpretation of the Constitution: Strict or Loose?
Tariffs, Banks & Business or farming?
Banks: National or State?
Defense: Standing Army or Militias?
Foreign Policy: Support Britain or Support France?
Regions of Support: N, S, E, W?
Nullification
More important: Order or Liberty?
Party Leaders & Presidents
Federalists Democratic-Republicans
Questions
Why does the Electoral College encourage a two-party system rather than a multiparty system?
Explain how Thomas Jefferson’s election in the “revolution” of 1800 changed the way the federal (national) government operated.
National
State

43. Two Parties