1. WASHINGTON

2. EXECUTIVE EXAMPLE
-National Hero
-set many precedents for future leaders
-developed Cabinet
-defined appointment powers
-expanded foreign affairs powers
-became legislative leader

3. 1ST CONGRESS
-Bill of Rights ratified
10 Amendments
-passed Judiciary Act
Supreme Court

4. FINANCIAL DEBATE
-nation had large war debt
-Alexander Hamilton’s plan
-tariff
-pay all debts
-national bank system
-debate over power to create a national bank
-implied powers?

5. FINANCIAL DEBATE
-nation had large war debt
-Alexander Hamilton’s plan
-tariff
-pay all debts
-national bank system
-debate over power to create a national bank
-implied powers?

6. POLITICAL AFFAIRS
-British harassment of settlers in the west
-French Revolution in 1789
-British and French at war
-U.S. neutrality
-Whiskey Rebellion
-farmer’s rebellion over an excise tax on whiskey they produced
-rebellion crushed by Washington and the army before it begins
-proves the strength of the new federal gov’t

7. POLITICAL AFFAIRS
-Jay’s Treaty
-trade treaty with Britain
-highly unpopular b/c of the Revolution
-Pinckney’s Treaty
-trade treaty with Spain
-access to the Mississippi R.
-Treaty of Greenville
-Battle of Fallen Timbers
-Ohio Valley area

8. WASHINGTON’S WARNING
-served two terms but refused another
-political fighting had already begun
-Farewell Warnings
-no political parties
-no involvement in foreign affairs