GEORGE WASHINGTON

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WHISKEY REBELLION

• The whiskey rebellion started in 1791. • It was a protest against a tax put on whiskey.• The protesters used violence and intimidation.• They frequently tarred and feathered tax collectors.

FAREWELL ADDRESS• The farewell address informed the people that George

Washington was retiring after his second term.

RETIRING• Washington was going to retire after his first term but Alexander Hamilton

and James Madison convinced him that the growing divisions between the newly formed Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties, along with the current state of foreign affairs, would rip the country apart in the absence of his leadership.

THE PROCLAMATION OF NEUTRALITY

• A formal announcement issued by George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain.

• The conflict began just weeks after Washington was first inaugurated.

• Washington feared that another war would tear the newly formed nation apart.

• He was also afraid of bringing another war to America.

HAITI

• Washington managed to keep America neutral during the war. In 1791, shortly after the Haitian Revolution broke out, Washington's administration, at French request, agreed to send money, arms, and provisions to the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to assist distressed slave owning colonists. Reports came in of the Haitian slaves having slaughtered their white masters.

• Washington himself was a slave owner and was willing to help the French government in their suppression of the slave revolt. This aid formed part of the US repayment of Revolutionary War loans, and eventually amounted to about $400,000 and 1,000 military weapons.

AID

• The French Revolution started on July 14, 1789 with the  storming of the Bastille.

FRENCH REVOLUTION

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END OF THE REVOLUTION

• The French revolution ended on September 21, 1792 after France declared itself a republic. Shortly after the French revolutionaries guillotined King Louis XVI. After that they imprisoned or killed American supporters.