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Presidential Outline of GEORGE WASHINGTON
-Shu Yu Zhang-
President George Washington: (1732 – 1799) Education: 1940s Attends an unnamed school up to the elementary level. (Not a formal education.) 1748 Trained with George William Fairfax in surveying Lord Fairfax’s frontier land in the Shenandoah Valley. Occupations: 1749 - 1752 County surveyor for Culpeper Country. 1752 - 1755 Major in Virginia Milita 1755 Aide-de-camp of General Braddock on the trip to Monongahela. 1755 - 1757 Promoted to colonel and commander-in-chief of all Virginia troops by Dinwiddie. 1758 Brigadier under General Forbes
Incumbent Political Offices: 1758 Member in the House of Burgesses 1760 - 1774 Justice of Fairfax County 1774 Delegate of the First Continental Congress 1775 Commander in Chief of Army of the Second Continental Congress
Terms Of Presidency: (1789- 1797) Prominent Issues of the 1st Election: (1789- 1793) § Framing a New Government § Building and expanding America Opponents for Office: For Vice President: John Adams – 34 à Vice President Others- 35
Prominent Issues of the 2nd Election: (1793- 1797) § Establishing a National Sovereignty § Neutrality Opponents for Office: For Vice President: John Adams – 77 à Vice President George Clinton- 50 Others-5
Washington’s Administration
Vice President: John Adams (1789- 1797) Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson (1789- 1793) Edmund Randolph (1794- 1795) Timothy Pickering (1795- 1797) Secretary of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton (1789- 1795) Oliver Wolcott (1795- 1797) Secretary of War: Henry Knox (1789- 1794) Timothy Pickering (1795- 1796) James McHenry (1796- 1797) Attorney General: Edmund Randolph (1789- 1793) William Bradford (1794- 1795) Charles Lee (1795- 1797) Postmaster General: Samuel Osgood (1789- 1791) Timothy Pickering (1791- 1794) Joseph Habersham (1795- 1797)
IMPORTANT EVENTS DURING WASHINGTON’S PRESIDENCY :Domestic Happenings
George Washington becomes the first president (1789) He was unanimously elected by all of the presidential electors. John Adams became the Vice President. He receives 34/ 69 votes.
Judiciary Act (1789) The Judiciary Act had given the Court the power to compel executive officials to act in such matters as the delivery of the commissions and it was on the basis that Marbury had field his suit. But the Court ruled that Congress had exceeded its authority in creating that statute: that the Constitution had defined the powers of the judiciary, and that the legislature had no right to expand them. The relevant section of the 1789 act was therefore void. It was one of the first laws passed by the constitution. It organized the U.S. Supreme Court and established lower federal courts throughout the country.
Alexander Hamilton’s Financial Plan (1790) He proposed that the federal government assume the state debts encountered greater difficulties. His opponents argued that if the federal government took over the state debts the people of states with grew debts would have to pay taxes to service the larger debts of other states. So he proposed the moving of the capital to the south for the assumption of the bill.
Bill of Rights added to the Constitution (1791) The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Nine of them placed limitations on Congress by forbidding it to infringe on certain basic right: freedom of religion, speech, and the press; immunity from arbitrary arrest; trail by jury; and others. The Tenth Amendment reserved to the states all powers except those specifically withheld from them or delegated to the federal Government. These were started as demand from the “anti-federalists”.
First Bank of the U.S. Chartered (1791) The First Bank of the U.S. was charted, granting it the right to continue fore twenty years.
Vermont admitted to the Union (1791) Vermont became the fourteenth state in 1791 after New York and New Hampshire finally agreed to give up their claims to it.
Mint Act (1792)
George Washington begins second presidential term (1793) George Washington ran for a second term as an individual supported by both Hamilton (Federalists) and Jefferson (Republicans). John Adams (Federalist) was selected as vice president, getting 75/130.George Clinton received 50/130.
Treaty of Greenville (1795) The British garrison prudently stayed out of the fight. A year later, the Miami unhappily signed the Treaty of Greenville. It ceded substantial new lands to the United States for a formal acknowledgement of their claim to the territory they retained.
Washington’s Farewell Address (1795) It gave Washington’s reasons for refusing a third term. –Inveighed against party divisions-counseled good nation credit-warned against permanent alliances.
Major Foreign Policies
Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality (1793) This act was to proclaim the U.S neutral in other countries’ affairs. Any citizen who contributed to hostilities on the ocean would receive no protection from the United States and would be prosecuted whenever their acts were within the jurisdiction of American courts.
Genet Affair (1793) Edmond Genet disembarked at Charleston where he made plans to use American ports to outfit French warships, encouraging American ship owners to serve as French privateers and commissioned the aging George Rogers Clark to lead a military expedition against Spanish lands to the south. He ignored the proclamation, yet Washington granted him political asylum in Long Island.
Jay Treaty with England (1794) John Jay, chief justice of the United States Supreme Court was a special commissioner to England to secure compensation for recent British assaults on American shipping, and to demand withdrawal of British forces from the frontier posts, and to negotiate a new commercial treaty. This treaty settled the conflict with Britain and prevented what had seemed likely to become a war between the two nations. It established an undisputed American sovereignty over the entire Northwest and produces a reasonably satisfactory commercial relationship with Britain, whose trade was important to the United States.
Neutrality Act (1794) This act was similar to the Proclamation of Neutrality.
Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794) Wayne met and decisively defeated the Indians in a battle fought near the British fort.
Naturalization Act (1795)
Pinckney Treaty with Spain (1795) Under Pinckney’s Treaty, Spain recognized the rights of Americans to navigate the Mississippi to its mouth and to deposit goods at New Orleans for loading on oceangoing ships; agreed to fix the northern boundary of Florida to the 31st parallel; and required the Spanish authorities to prevent the Indians in Florida from launching raids across the border.
Major Administrative Conflicts
Whiskey Rebellion (1794) This is actually known as Shay’s Rebellion to Mass. Whiskey to Penn. Farmers refused to pay whiskey excise, so they terrorized the “excise man” as in tax collector.
Major Social Changes/ Movements
Fugitive Slave Law (1793)
Major Inventions or Technological Changes
Samuel Slater builds the first American factory (1790) He used the knowledge he had acquired before leaving England to build a spinning mill for the Quaker merchant Moses Brown in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It was the first modern factory in America.
Cotton gin invented (1793) Eli Whitney invented the Cotton [en]gin[e] during his time being a tutor under General Nathanael Greene’s Widow. It is a toothed roller caught the fibers of the cotton boll and pulled them between wires of grating. The grating caught the seeds while removing the lint from the roller’s teeth.
