launching the new ship of state 1789-1800. growing pains american growth
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Launching the New Ship of State1789-1800
Growing PainsAmerican Growth
Washington for PresidentGeorge Washington
Establishing the Cabinet
Bill of Rights•A promise to be filled
•Bill of Rights Adopted in 1791
•Congress Creates Fed. Courts
Hamilton Revives the Corpse of Public Credit
Alexander Hamilton
Bolstering National Credit
Compromises
Customs Duties and Excise Taxes•Ship of State launched heavily overloaded
•Tariff Laws
Hamilton Battles Jefferson for a Bank
A Bank of the United States
Hamilton gets his bank
Mutinous Moonshiners in Penn. Whisky Rebellion
Washington summoned an army to crush rebellion
Consequences
The Emergence of political parties
Consequences of Hamilton’s successful financial policy
2 Party System
The Impact of French RevolutionJeffersonian Democratic- Republicans vs. Hamiltonian Federalists
French Revolution
Washington’s Neutrality ProclamationFranco-American Alliance of 1778 still on the
books
Neutrality Proclamation 1793
Citizen Edmond Genet
Effects of Neutrality Proclamation
Embroilments with Britain British sorely try neutrality
On the Sea Frontier
Significance
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
John Adams Becomes President
Who should follow the “father of his country”
Presidential Campaign of 1796
John Adams
Unofficial Fighting with France•France’s reaction to Jay’s Treaty
•X,Y,Z affair
•War
Adams Puts Patriotism Above Party France didn’t want full
scale war
Convention of 1800 Signed in Paris
Legacy of Adams
The Federalists Witch Hunt•Federalists use anti-French frenzy to push through laws in Congress in 1798Muffled or minimized their Jeffersonian foes
•1st 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
The Virginia (Madison) and Kentucky Resolutions
•Jeffersonian were not taking the sedition act laying down
•The Compact Theory
•Implications
Federalists Vs. Democratic Republicans
•Differences
•Foreign policy differences
•After 1st full decade of Nationhood founders hopes in peril