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WASHINGTON AS PRESIDENT
Geroge Washington finds out that he has been chosen as the first president of the United States. -
PROTECTIVE TARIFF passed
Congress passed this tariff to encourage American production and bring in a lot of revenue. It was an import tax on goods produced in Europe. -
JUDICIARY ACT of 1789
One of the first things Washington and the Congress accomplished. It created the judicial system and authorized Congress to set up a federal court system with the Supreme Court at the head.
The law provided a Supreme Court with a chief justice and five associate justices. Then it set up three federal circuit courts and thirteen deferal district courts in the country. -
VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY RESOLUTION
Measure passed by Virginia and Kentucky against the Alien and Sedition Acts. -
EXCISE TAX passed
Hamilton wasn't satifsfied with the revenue from the protective tariff, so he passed a tax on a product's manfacture, sale, or distribution, which was to be levied on the manufacture of whiskey. -
WHISKEY REBELLION
Whiskey was the main source for many of the frontier farmers, to the Excise Tax passed made them angry. in 1794 the farmers refused to pay tax, so Hamilton took an army there and enforced the law. -
ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS
series of laws passed by the Federalist Congress and signed by Adams. These laws made it harder for immigrants to vote and it made forced deportation allowable. -
JEFFERSON WINS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
The presidential election was between the Democratic-Republican Jefferson and the Federalist President John Adams. Jefferson ended up winning. -
MARBURY V. MADISON
John Adams on his last day of presidency created the Organic Act to appont justices for the District of Colombia, but the commissions weren't signed in time. When Marbuy didn't get his promised appointment he went to court against John Marshall who refused to deliver the cimmissions. The case ended without him getting the commissions and it also set up judicial review. -
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
Napoleon needed money to continue his war against Britain, so he offered Louisiana to the US for 15 million dollars. Some Americans were afraid this would lead to disunion of the US, but Jefferson decided to make the deal anyway. -
WAR OF 1812
War against Britain that President Madison declared. -
MISSOURI COMPROMISE
To have an equal representation of free and slave states, the US accepted Missouri as a slave state with Maine entering the Union as a free state. -
JACKSON ELECTION
Democratic Andrew Jackson is elected president of the US. -
INDIAN REMOVAL ACT of 1830
Jackson believed that the best thing to do was to move Native Americans from their lands to farther west. -
WORCESTER V. GEORGIA
The Cherokee Nation won recognition as a political community. Even though Jackson ended up not listening to the Court's decision, the Court did rule that Georgia had no right to regulate the invade Cherokee land. -
TREATY OF NEW ECHOTA
eight million acres of Cherokee land was given to the federal government in exchange for five million dollars and land west of the Mississippi. -
TRAIL OF TEARS
The Cherokee were sent off in groups on a long journey of recolation with many dying on the route.
