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George Washington was voted unanimously to be the first president.
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Supreme Court was given exclusive original jurisdiction over all civil actions between states, or between a state and the United States, as well as over all suits and proceedings brought against ambassadors
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"D.C." stands for the "District of Columbia" which is the federal district containing the city of Washington.
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The United States needed both influences
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raised early questions of constitutionality in the new government.
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This became a problem for grain farmers who were expected to pay the tax on whiskey up front so their grain could be distilled into whiskey
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The treaty gained the primary American goals, which included the withdrawal of units of the British Army from pre-Revolutionary forts that it had failed.
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Some in the United States felt that the U.S. should have come to the aid of America's former ally, France, in their war with England.
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resulted in a limited, undeclared war known as the Quasi-War. U.S. and French negotiators restored peace with the Convention of 1800, also known as the Treaty of Mortefontaine.
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These acts increased the residency requirement for American citizenship from five to fourteen years, authorized the president to imprison or deport aliens considered "dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States"
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they infringed on the reserved powers of the states.
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. He slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third.
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The Louisiana purchase wasn't a period of time... it didin't have hardships
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Marbury filed his petition for the writ of mandamus directly in the Supreme Court, the Court needed to be able to exercise original jurisdiction over the case in order to have the power to hear it.
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Sickness, getting lost, starvation, bad weather, and injury.
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Shortly after his failed bid for the New York governorship, Burr and longtime friend Gen. James Wilkinson toyed with the idea of invading Spanish-held territory and setting up their own nation.
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he was increasingly preoccupied with keeping the Nation from involvement in the Napoleonic wars, though both England and France interfered with the neutral rights of American merchantmen.Jefferson's attempted solution, an embargo upon American shipping, worked badly and was unpopular.
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The offensive actions of the United States failed to capture Canada
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it verified a new shared-power relationship between the former enemies
