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TSWBAT understand GW’s administration

EQ: What were the key accomplishments of Washington’s administration?

Bell-work 1/21/1412/6 Shay’s Rebellion

5312/9 AOC Mini-assessment 5412/9 Video Notes 5512/10 Constitutional Convention

5612/11 Great Compromise Reading Q’s

5712/16 Shay’s Political Cartoon/Summary

5812/17 Constitution Scavenger Packet 5912/16 Fed’s vs. Anti-Fed’s Chart

6012/17 BOR Chart 6112/18 Ratification Order/Debate

621/21 New Republic LGS

631/21 New Republic SPC

641/21 GW Administration 65

2nd semester goals:

1. Make sure NB is 100% updated at all times, if you are absent check the folder and get caught up!! Many of you chose not to do this. This hurts your NB grade and test grade

2. Increase test/quiz average3. <3 History

Fresh start, really means a fresh start

The student will be able to understand the accomplishments of GW’s administration including the debt crisis and the Whiskey Rebellion with 80% accuracy

Where does this objective fall into our new unit learning goal scale?

What is the difference in complexity between levels 2 and 3 for this objective?

TOC: Page 65: George Washington’s Administration

Objective:

In 1789, our nation had a new Constitution, a new Congress and their first president. The US was one fourth the size it is today. It is significant to understand Washington’s achievements as president and his cabinet choices.

Why does this objective matter?

1. Inauguration-a ceremony in which the president take the oath of office

2. Precedent-an example to be followed by others in the future

3. Bond-a certificate issued by a government for an amount of money that the government promises to pay back with interest. (Helped to raise $ for the government)

4. Speculator-people who invest in risky ventures in hopes of making a big profit.

5. Unconstitutional- against what is permitted by the Constitution

1. Vocabulary

Washington becomes the first president under the new Constitution in 1789

He ran against John Adams, John Jay and fifteen others

Washington wins unanimously, winning all the electoral votes in the 15 states, John Adams became Vice President

Interesting Fact (not in the book): This is the first and only time a president has been elected unanimously (earning all the electoral college votes)

2. The First President—G.W.

Washington’s inauguration took place in the nation’s capital, New York City on April 30, 1789.

Washington would become a precedent for future presidents to follow

When G.W. took office their was few federal government employees

G.W. had to fill the offices and his cabinet

Congress passed laws to set up 3 departments in the executive branch: treasury, state, and war departments

2. G.W.

G.W. appointed four well known men to take new offices as department heads.

Secretary of State (foreign affairs): Thomas Jefferson

Secretary of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton

Secretary of War: Henry Knox Attorney General: Edmond Randolph Chief of Justice of the Supreme Court:

John Jay This group became known as the

Cabinet

Who was absent? Yes John Adams, he was invited but didn’t

attend. Some thought he was an arrogant jerk.

Some people say the role of vice president was made for him, he had no say and only preceded over the Senate. He was VP for 8 years.

3. Filling the Cabinet

The revolutionary war had left the nation in huge dept, some 82 million

The debt was mostly in the form of bonds, money the US owed to citizens

The original bonds were sold for more than they were worth by speculators

Didn’t even have enough money to move the president from Mount Vernon to New York

4. Nation’s first economic crisis

Bell-work 1/22/14

Work in your group to determine the political message of the cartoon. It is a 2006 depiction of the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion. Look for words, symbols, expressions. EQ: How did GW handle the Whiskey Rebellion? TSWBAT evaluate GW’s response to the rebellion.

The student will be able to evaluate how GW responded to the rebellion and why with 80% accuracy

Where does this fit into our LGS?

How do we reach mastery?

Objective and Scales:

A.H. was responsible for developing a plan to get the nation out of debt. (Let’s talk about his past first!)

His plan had three parts:1. The US government would agree to

pay all federal and state debts2. The US government would charter a

national bank for depositing government funds

3. The government would impose a high tax on goods imported into the country

Many Southerners opposed the plan to repay state debts. Several southern states had paid off their wartime debts on their own

Congress debated the issue for 6 months, finally an agreement was made. Southerners would support Hamilton’s plan to have state’s repay. But, in return the government would build the nation’s capital in the South between Virginia and Maryland DC

5. Hamilton’s Financial PlanHe believed it would generate revenue and wanted to mimic it after the Bank of England (he was an anglophile…<3

England)He believed it would be a safe place to deposit funds and the bank would issue paper money

High tax on imported goods, it would raise money for the Federal Government. Only part of A.H. plan Congress

wouldn’t pass….The southern states don’t like

tariffs

6. Debate over the bankSome, like Thomas Jefferson argued

against the bank, believing that the law establishing the bank was unconstitutional

Jefferson and Madison argued that no where in the constitution was there a condition allowing Congress to set up a national bank, they said the bank was unconstitutional

Jefferson’s view was a strict one of the Constitution, or only permits what the Constitution says word-for-word

Hamilton argued for a loose interpretation of the Constitution. He said Article 1, section 8 of the Constitution gave Congress the power to make all laws “Necessary and proper.”

A national bank will stimulate

the economy

and create Credit!

6. Debate over the bankIn 1791, Congress did

pass a law establishing the bank, and Hamilton sways G.W. to sign it (?)

The Bank of the US gets a 20 year charter

Began with a charter of 10 million in stock (2 million from the Fed. Gov, 8 million from private investors)

The bank does create revenue, just not enough to cover the war debt.

Plan didn’t generate enough money, so Hamilton proposed a 25% manufacturing tax on whiskey. This was an indirect tax, so everyone paid it

Congress passed and imposed a tax on all whiskey made and sold in the US

Whiskey was called the Patriotic Drink

Farmers growing wheat and corn in Pennsylvania are furious and couldn’t pay the tax

Hamilton’s tax would cause a revolt that tested the strength of the new national government

7. Whiskey Rebellion

7. The whiskey rebellion Many farmers compared the whiskey

tax to the hated taxes the English imposed before the Revolution

Many farmers organized protest and refused to pay the tax

Protestors in western Pennsylvania in 1794 burned the house of a tax collector and rebelled, this became known as the Whiskey Rebellion

G.W. sent 13,000 troops to PN, but they all disbanded before they arrived. It didn’t take much, they new G.W. was on his way. Rut roo!

The rebellion did however test the power of the new Fed. Gov’t. G.W. actions proved no armed rebellions would be tolerated.

In your notebook, complete a circle map for your summary to help define G.W. and his first administration. Your topic goes in the center circle, ideas go on the outside

Summary and Progress Chart

Became 1st

president in1789

G.W.

Complete Progress Chart for Objective

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