1. Launching the New Ship of State 1789-1800

2. Growing Pains American Growth

3. Washington for President George Washington Establishing the Cabinet

4. Bill of Rights A promise to be filled Bill of Rights Adopted in 1791 Congress Creates Fed. Courts

5. Hamilton Revives the Corpse of Public Credit  Alexander Hamilton  Bolstering National Credit  Compromises

6. Customs Duties and Excise Taxes Ship of State launched heavily overloaded Tariff Laws

7. Hamilton Battles Jefferson for a Bank  A Bank of the United States  Hamilton gets his bank

8. Mutinous Moonshiners in Penn.  Whisky Rebellion  Washington summoned an army to crush rebellion  Consequences

9. The Emergence of political parties  Consequences of Hamilton’s successful financial policy  2 Party System

10. The Impact of French Revolution Jeffersonian Democratic- Republicans vs. Hamiltonian Federalists French Revolution

11. Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation  Franco-American Alliance of 1778 still on the books  Neutrality Proclamation 1793  Citizen Edmond Genet  Effects of Neutrality Proclamation

12. Embroilments with Britain  British sorely try neutrality  On the Sea Frontier  Significance

13. Jay’s Treaty and Washington’s Farewell  Jay (Chief Justice) Sent to London in 1794  Effect of Jeffersonian Dem Rep  Consequences of Jay’s Treaty

14. John Adams Becomes President  Who should follow the “father of his country”  Presidential Campaign of 1796  John Adams

15. Unofficial Fighting with France France’s reaction to Jay’s Treaty X,Y,Z affair War

16. Adams Puts Patriotism Above Party  France didn’t want full scale war  Convention of 1800 Signed in Paris  Legacy of Adams

17. The Federalists Witch Hunt Federalists use anti- French frenzy to push through laws in Congress in 1798Muffled or minimized their Jeffersonian foes 1 st laws aimed at Pro Jeffersonian “aliens” 2 more Alien Laws The Sedition Act Sedition Act seemed to be indirect conflict with Constitution This law had wide spread popular support

18. The Virginia (Madison) and Kentucky Resolutions Jeffersonian were not taking the sedition act laying down The Compact Theory Implications

19. Federalists Vs. Democratic Republicans Differences Foreign policy differences After 1 st full decade of Nationhood founders hopes in peril