It all starts with Washington

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It all starts with Washington
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1789

• GW President
• John Adams VP
• Cabinet
• Hamilton Treasury
• Jefferson State

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Congress takes action

• Set up Judicial System
• Supreme
• Circuit
• District
• Madisons promise
• Amending the Constitution
• 2/3 both houses
• 2/3 state conventions
• ¾ of states must say yes

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The Bill of Rights

• I basic freedoms
• II-IV related to struggle w/GB
• V-VIII protection of the accused
• IX-X limit govts power
• 1791 ratified

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Washingtons Presidency

• Few guidelines
• Precedent setting
• Respect for office
• Stay out of day-day political battles
• 2 termsgives up power again

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His Farewell

• Keep out of European affairs
• No entangling alliances
• Concentrate on the homefront
• Trade with the world
• Do not encourage political parties

• Too late, 1796 election saw Federalist John Adams
  take on Dem-Republican Thomas Jefferson

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Hamilton vs. Jefferson
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Political Parties
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The Economy

• Debt
• National govt. assumption
• Bonds

• Bank
• Purpose
• Constitutionality fight
• Loose vs. strict interpretation
• Necessary and proper

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The Compromise
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Tariffs and Taxes

• Revenue
• North vs. South
• Protection of business
• Whiskey Rebellion

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Foreign Policy

• 1789 Revolution
• Jefferson pro-Fr.
• Brothers in revolution
• Hamilton pro-GB
• 1 trading partner
• War Neutrality Proclamation 1793 sets
  precedent

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Foreign Policy post-GW

• Federalist but
• Neutral like GW
• Problems with France
• X,Y,Z Affair
• Quasi war
• Gets to build navy
• Centralizing power

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Jeffersons next

• Neutrality continues
• Barbary Pirates and trade
• Centralizing power
• Atlantic Ocean the problem so
• Embargo

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Neutrality Fails Finally

• British in NW forts
• Tecumseh and Red Stick Confederation
• Tippecanoe
• Nationalism and land grab schemes
• War Hawks Clay, Calhoun, and Webster

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War of 1812

• 2nd War of Independence
• Mr. Madisons War
• Federalists traitorous actions
• Hartford Convention
• Great Lakes
• Washington, DC
• Baltimore
• Ft. McHenry
• New Orleans and Jackson
• Treaty of Ghent

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Treaty of Ghent

• Signed Dec.24th
• Sec. Of State John Quincy Adams
• Nothing was adjusted, nothing settled. Return to
  prewar situation
• Rush-Bagot 1817
• No warships on Great Lakes
• 1818 US/Canada border at 49 lat.

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Monroe and JQ Adams

• Set borders
• Canada
• Convention of 1818
• 49th Parallel
• 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty with Spain
• 1819 Florida Ceded by Spain
• Monroe Doctrine