C H A P T E R 7

LAUNCHING THE NEW REPUBLIC, 1789-1800

A NEW GOVERNMENT

• The first Congress

• New York City

• George Washington

• The first Presidential Cabinet

THE FIRST CABINET

• Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson

• Secretary of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton

• Secretary of War: Henry Knox

NATIONAL JUSTICE

• The Judiciary Act of 1789

• James Madison

• The Bill of Rights

• Individual Rights

HAMILTON’S ECONOMIC POLICY

• Hamilton’s economic objectives

• Report on the Public Credit

• War Bonds

• Taxes

• Speculators

• Moving the capital.

HAMILTON’S ECONOMIC POLICY

• The National Bank

• National Currency

• Tying the rich to the government

• Jefferson and Madison opposed the bank

• The “Elastic Clause”

• Washington’s approval

HAMILTON

• Hamilton’s legacy

• The Federalists

• New England, New Jersey, and South Carolina

• Opposition to the Federalists

• The Jeffersonian Republicans

REBELLION

• The Whiskey Rebellion

• Pennsylvania Farmers

• July 1794

• The role of George Washington?

• The impact of this event?

FOREIGN POLICY

• Spain’s Intentions in North America

• New Mexico and Texas

• Controlling the Pacific Northwest

• The British and Spanish help the Native Americans

• Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee

FOREIGN POLICY

• France

• America becomes divided over France

• Reasons for the divide

• Washington claims neutrality

• British seizure of US ships

• Impressment of US sailors

FOREIGN POLICY

• Helping the Natives (British)

• Jay’s Treaty

• Pinckney’s Treaty

• The impact of both treaties on American politics.

POLITICAL PARTIES

• Suspicions of the Federalists

• Jeffersonian Republicans

• Media Bias

• Jefferson resigns

• Washington’s warnings

PARTY POLITICS

• The election of 1796

• Jefferson vs. John Adams

• Rules for becoming Vice President

FOREIGN CONFLICTS

• French Reaction to Jay’s Treaty

• Adams sends delegates to France

• The XYZ affair

• Anti-French sentiment in America

• Effects on the Republicans

• The Quasi-War

DOMESTIC TENSION

• The Alien and Sedition Acts

• Silencing the opposition

• The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

A NEW ERA

• The election of 1800

• Thomas Jefferson

• Aaron Burr

• “High Federalists”

• The role of the House of Representatives