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Constitution Of The United States Signed
The Constitution of the United States was finally signed after a long debate about it by the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The Constitution consisted a bill of rights that protected people's natural rights. -
George Washington Inagurated
George Washington was inagurated as the United States first president. He knew he faced some hardships but was very well likedbed states.y the major population of the Unit -
Louis XVI of France Calls Meeting of the Estates General
King Louis XVI was desperate for revenue. He unleashed explosive revelutionary forces that toppled the monarchy and cost him his life. -
Congress Approves Hamilton's Plan for Funding and Assumption
The Funding Act authorized the federal government to receive certificates of state war-incurred debts and to issue federal securities in exchange. It essentially proposed “a loan to the full amount of the said domestic debt.” The terms of the loan were that two-thirds of the principal of the debt subscribed should draw an interest of 6% per annum, from the 1st of January 1791, and the remaining one-third of the principal to receive interest at the same rate (6%) from 1801. -
Bank of United States is Charted
The First Bank was a bank chartered by the United States Congress on February 25, 1791. The charter was for 20 years. The Bank was created to handle the financial needs and requirements of the central government of the newly formed United States, which had previously been thirteen individual states with their own banks, currencies, financial institutions, and policies. -
Hamilton's Report On Manufactures rejected by Congress
Leading opponents of Alexander Hamilton's economic plan included Thomas Jefferson (until later years) and James Madison, who were opposed to the use of subsidy to industry along with most of their fledgling Democratic-Republican Party. Instead of bounties they reasoned in favor of high tariffs and restrictions on imports to increase manufacturing; which interestingly was favored by the manufacturers themselves who desired protection of their home market. -
Genet affair strains relations with France
His actions endangered American neutrality in the war between France and Britain, which Washington had pointedly declared in his Neutrality Proclamation of April 22. When Genêt met with Washington, he asked for what amounted to a suspension of American neutrality. When turned down by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and informed that his actions were unacceptable, Meanwhile, Genêt's privateers were capturing British ships, and his militia was preparing to move against the Spainish -
Washington issues Proclamation of Neutrality
a formal announcement issued by United States President George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to warring countries. The Proclamation led to the Neutrality Act of 1794. -
Jefferson resigns as secratary of state
Jefferson retired to Monticello in late 1793 where he continued to oppose the policies of Hamilton and Washington. However, the Jay Treaty of 1794, led by Hamilton, brought peace and trade with Britain – while Madison, with strong support from Jefferson, wanted, "to strangle the former mother country" without going to war. "It became an article of faith among Republicans that 'commercial weapons' would suffice to bring Great Britain to any terms the United States chose to dictate" -
Whiskey Rebellion put down by US Army
The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the willingness and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws. The whiskey excise remained difficult to collect, however. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States, a process already underway. The whiskey tax was repealed after Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party, which opposed Hamilton's Federalist Party, came to power in 1800. -
Hamilton resigns as secretary of the treasury
Hamilton was very angry with Washington that he was trusted unconditionally and resigned as Secretary of the Treasury, on December 1, 1794. Hamilton's resignation as Secretary of the Treasury became effective in 1795.Even after that, he remained close to Washington and his family, mainly as an adviser and a friend. -
Jay's Treaty divides the nation.
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison strongly opposed the Treaty — they favored France — thus setting up foreign policy as a major dispute between the new Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties; it became a core issue of the First Party System. Furthermore they had a counterproposal designed to establish "a direct system of commercial hostility with Great Britain," even at the risk of war. -
Washington publishes Farwell Adress
concerns, Washington sought to convince the American people that his service was no longer necessary by, once again, as he had in his first inaugural address, telling them that he truly believed he was never qualified to be president and if he accomplished anything during his presidency it was as a result of their support and efforts to help the country survive and prosper -
John Adams elected president
When Washington declined a third term in 1797, Adams was elected President under the Federalist Party banner, and Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party was his Vice President. -
XYZ Affair poisons U.S. relations with France
a diplomatic event that strained relations between France and the United States, and led to an undeclared naval war called the Quasi-War. It took place from March of 1798 to 1780 -
Quasi-War with France
an undeclared war fought mostly at sea between the United States and French Republic from 1798 to 1800. In the United States, the conflict was sometimes also referred to as the Franco-American War, the Undeclared War with France, the Undeclared Naval War, the Pirate Wars, or the Half-War. -
Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts
The alien and sedititon acts were passed to stop aliens from having the same rights as a United States citizen. It was also passed so that the Democractic-Republican party could not criticize the Federalists who had the majority in Congress. it also made it a crime to utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the United States' form of government -
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions protest the Alien and Sedition Acts
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798-99 were a series of resolutions passed by the legislatures of these states protesting the Alien and Sedition Acts. The Kentucky Resolutions were drafted by Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Resolutions by James Madison. They are a democratic protest against what Jefferson, Madison and other Republicans considered to be a dangerous usurpation of power by the federal government. The Kentucky Resolution of 1799 was the most radical of the resolutions a -
Convention of Mortefontaine is signed with France, ending the Quasi-War
was a treaty between the United States of America and France to settle the hostilities that had erupted during the Quasi-War. The Quasi-War, waged primarily in the Caribbean, had existed since the American delegation to France, arriving in 1797, had been told that America had to pay $250,000 to see—not negotiate with—the French ambassador. This incident, known as the XYZ Affair, was scandalous in America, -
House of Representativets elects Thomas Jefferson President
Jefferson owed his election victory to the South's inflated number of Electors, which counted slaves under the three-fifths compromise. After his election in 1800, some called him the "Negro President", with critics like the Mercury and New-England Palladium of Boston that Jefferson had the gall to celebrate his election as a victory for democracy when he won "the temple of Liberty on the shoulders of slaves
