Jefferson and Hamilton agreed to pass Hamilton's financial plan in exchange for making Washington D.C. the Capital of the country
Age of passion
Politics was very negative with the rise of political parties, political violence, and deep political divisions
7 years war
Articles of confederation
Looked to balance national coordination and states rights to prevent tyranny. It featured a unicameral legislature, but the federal government had no money and no military
Election of 1797
First contested election in American history, won by John Adams (Washington's vice president)
Shay’s rebellion
Farmers had to take debt because they weren’t getting paid. Their land was being repossessed so they rebelled and closed the courts. They used Republican ideals to justify it.
How would the colonists win? George Washington would lead an army
How would they pay for it? New currency
The British continued to kidnap american sailors. Washington sent John Jay to london to negotiate
French revolution
Ambassador from France came to America to encourage Americans to side with the French. Washington declared neutrality, but the ambassador remained in America to not get beheaded back home.
violent tax protest from 1791-1794.
the whiskey was the first tax imposed on a domestic product by president Washington to pay for the war. It unfairly burdened poor farmers west of the Appalachian mountains because they couldn't do business anymore
Hamilton's financial plan
Virtual representation
Boston massacre
The division of powers between different levels of government.
Congress wanted king George to intervene on their behalf and end the violence. He didn’t read it.
George Washington's Presidency
Established many precedents for the office of the president. Created a cabinet-style government, appointed cabinet officials based on merit, and stepped down after 2 terms
the character of a good participant in a system of gov
Declaration of Independence
Townshend Acts
Delegates met in New York to send the "declaration of rights & grievances" to the king. They also organized a boycott of British goods.
Democratic Republicans
Weak national government
Lexington and Concorde
British troops marched to take a militia's weapons. They we're beaten back and chased back to boston by militia minutemen
virginia and kentucky resolutions
drafted by thomas jefferson and james madison, claimed that alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and overstepped federal authority under the constitition, and could therefore be nullified by the states
Annapolis convention
Secret meeting between delegates of 6 states to discuss how to fix the articles of confederation
republican motherhood
the idea that women needed to become educated so that they could educate the new generation
pinckney's treaty
Thomas Gage
Stamp act
All paper products sold in the colonies had to be stamped and pay a small tax. It spurred on revolutionary ideals.
Fries rebellion
Farmers in southeast Pennsylvania stopped paying taxes for the larger military. John Fries led a peaceful protest, but John Adams ordered federal troops to stop the protest, and they made mass arrests, assaulted newspaper editors, and almost executed John Fries.
Failures of the articles of confederation
France and others wanted their debt paid back, yet the national government didn’t have money. States had individual economies that didn’t collaborate.
