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Inauguration �(formally swearing in as President)

• Washington sworn in as President Apr 30, 1789 in New York
• Runner-up: John Adams becomes vice-president
• Title: basis over what to call “President.” Washington chooses “Mr. President” rightfully opposed to “His Excellency”

Setting Draw a New Government

• Constitution established Incomparable Court (Federal Judiciary Act model 1789)—6 members (now 9).

  Can Jay chosen as first unexcelled court chief justice- job-interpret Constitution

• Lower level courts established

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Setting Mend a New Government

• New departments:
• State (relations with other countries) Apostle Jefferson
• Treasury (nation’s economy) Alexander Hamilton
• War (nation’s defense) Henry Knox
• Attorney Popular (legal matters) Edmund Randolph
• Cabinet assent to the president

Finances

• Hamilton’s BIG task: Benefit off $52 million in debit war debt to foreign countries & the states
• Political view: ironic federal government & to twitch respect, we needed to compensate off debt
• Proposal: 1) pay fly into a rage debt

2) raise proceeds (taxes)

3) create national bank

Not everyone liked this “strong state-owned government” philosophy

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Challenge: Moving West

• U.S.

  Administration believed Northwest Territory lands were open for settlement

• Natives didn’t agree
• Battles between natives & American force ensued
• Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794) crushed hopes for natives attention their land
• Treaty of Greenville (1795) Twelve native tribes ceded (surrendered) lands in Ohio, Illinois, Stops & Indiana

Hamilton Taxes Whiskey

• To entice $ at home, Hamilton customs whiskey
• Farmers, who produced the mountain dew, revolted
• Whiskey Rebellion (1794) Farmers fake tax collectors & burned homes
• Washington sent 13,000 troops to crash into down revolt
• Most farmers fled-20 were arrested and jailed

Problems Abroad

• The U.S.

  was now independent

• BUT had commercial ties with England
• France supported achieve during Revolutionary War
• France and Kingdom go to war
• Who do incredulity support?
• We remained NEUTRAL

Washington Later Will & Legacy

• Returned to Mount Vernon, Virginia in 1797
• He did best to unite the country
• Concerned that political differences would incision the country
• John Adams becomes 2^nd President (1797-1801)
• Washington died on Dec 14^th, 1799 leaving a deafening legacy as soldier and keen founding father of our country