APUSH Unit 3 B Test

How did Washington come to be president?

• members of the First Congress under the Constitution were elected in 1788

• people assured George Washington would be the electoral college’s unanimous choice for president, and he was

Organizing the Federal Government

• constitution authorizes president to appoint chiefs of department(approved by Senate)

  • form cabinet with president

  • State: Thomas Jefferson

  • Treasury: Alexander Hamilton

  • War: Henry Knox

  • Attorney General: Edmund Randolph

• Judiciary Act of 1789 establishes Supreme Court with one Chierf Justice and give associate judges

Hamilton’s Financial Plan

1. pay off national debt at face value and have federal government assume war debts of states

2. protect young nation’s new industries and collect adaquate revenues at the same time by imposing high tariffs on imported goods

3. create national bank for depositing government funds and printing bank notes that would provide basis for stable US currency

Jefferson’s Argument About the National Bank

• argues Consitution gives no power to Congress to do it

• Wash supports - vote on law to make it privately owned

French Revolution Under Washington

• US supports aspiration to establish Republic, but horrified by mob hyseria and mass executions

• US-French alliance is with monarchy

• Jefferson believes US should suupport bc of British seizing US merchant ships bound for French ports

• Proclamation of Neutrality: GW believes US isn’t strong enough for European war

  • states are neutral→Jefferson resigns

• Citizen Genet: French minister to US; GW believes he breaks rules of diplomacy by appealing to US to support France

  • even Jeff approves→Genet stays in US to become citizen

The Jay Treaty (1794)

• treaty between US and Britain agreeing British evacuate posts on US frontier, but NOTHING ABOUT IMPRESSMENT

• maintained GW’s policy of Neutrality, ratified by Senate, kept us at peace

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