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