washington’s new government. elected president unanimous decision by congress choose george...
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1 st cabinet Vice President: John Adams Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson Secretary of War: Henry Knox Treasury Secretary: Alexander Hamilton Attorney General: Edmund RandolphTRANSCRIPT
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Washington’s New Government
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Elected President
• Unanimous decision by Congress• Choose George Washington• War hero• Virginian
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1st cabinet
• Vice President: John Adams• Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson• Secretary of War: Henry Knox• Treasury Secretary: Alexander Hamilton• Attorney General: Edmund Randolph
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Judiciary Act of 1789
• Set up the circuit courts (13 district courts)• Supreme Court, final say in Constitutional
issues• John Jay, 1st Chief Justice
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Hamilton’s Bank Plan• Plan to create a national
bank to handle the nations debt and finances
• Felt that the federal govt. should absorb colonial debt.
• Angered many states who had already paid off their debts.
• New excise taxes and tariffs• Mostly ended up taxing
American merchants and farmers
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Whiskey Rebellion• Western Pennsylvania• Transporting was hard over
mountains so turned their grains into whiskey
• More profitable• New Hamilton taxes reminded
them of British taxation• Resisted and intimidated tax
collectors• Washington puts Hamilton in
charge and leads a force himself to put it down and does
• Jefferson clear about opposing it.• Showed new Constitution could
enforce its laws and taxes.
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2 parties emerge
• Federalists– Still strong central govt.– National bank– Hamilton’s plan– nationalism
• Democratic – Republicans– Former Anti-Federalists– State and local
government power– individualism