Presidents Project For Ap Us History Essay

 
1st – George Washington
 
1789-1797
    Vice-President – John Adams
           
Domestic Affairs
 
Creation of the Departments of State (Thomas Jefferson), Treasury (Alexander Hamilton), War (Henry Knox), and Offices of Attorney General (Edmund Randolph), and Postmaster General (Samuel Osgood).
 
Bill of Rights proposed as 12 amendments and 10 passed
 
Federal Judiciary Act- Creates a six member Supreme Court, John Jay is appointed as Chief Justice and 13 district courts and 3 circuit courts.
 
Hamilton’s Fiscal Program: Assumption of Bill-assume state debts from Revolutionary War; First Bank of the United States; Buy bonds at par or face value.
 
Alexander Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures
Excise tax on tax on whiskey leads to Whiskey Rebellion
 
Tariff Act is moderately protectionist
1793 Thomas Jefferson resigns as Secretary of State
 
1790 first official census
 
Naturalization Act
 
Chisholm v. Georgia – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a citizen of one state may indeed sue another State in a Federal court as provided for in Article III, Section 2 of the constitution so in 1798 the 11th Amendment was added to the Constitution to repeal this section.
 
 
Foreign Affairs
 
French Revolution begins in 1789
Genet Affair
Proclamation of Neutrality
Jay’s Treaty with England
Neutrality Act
Pinckney Treaty with Spain
Washington’s Farewell Address
 
Social/Cultural  
 
Slater brings Knowledge of power driven machines to U.S.
 
First American novel, The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown
 
Capital moved to Philadelphia
 
Thomas Paine writes Age of Reason
 
Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography
John Trumbull paints the Declaration of Independence
Eli Whitney invents the Cotton gin
2nd – John Adams
​1797-1801
Vice-President- Thomas Jefferson
 
Domestic Affairs
 
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798- Four pieces of legislation designed to protect the Government from slander and to protect American’s during the...