Washingtons New Government Elected President Unanimous decision by

Washington’s New Government

Elected President • • Unanimous decision by Congress Choose George Washington War hero Virginian https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Jg. CQDZdl. Mdc

1 st cabinet • • • Vice President: John Adams Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson Secretary of War: Henry Knox Treasury Secretary: Alexander Hamilton Attorney General: Edmund Randolph

Judiciary Act of 1789 • Set up the circuit courts (13 district courts) • Supreme Court, final say in Constitutional issues • John Jay, 1 st Chief Justice

Hamilton’s Bank Plan • Plan to create a national bank to handle the nations debt and finances • Felt that the federal govt. should absorb colonial debt. • Angered many states who had already paid off their debts. • New excise taxes and tariffs • Mostly ended up taxing American merchants and farmers

Whiskey Rebellion • Western Pennsylvania • Transporting was hard over mountains so turned their grains into whiskey • More profitable • New Hamilton taxes reminded them of British taxation • Resisted and intimidated tax collectors • Washington puts Hamilton in charge and leads a force himself to put it down and does • Jefferson clear about opposing it. • Showed new Constitution could enforce its laws and taxes.

2 parties emerge • Federalists – – Still strong central govt. National bank Hamilton’s plan nationalism • Democratic – Republicans – Former Anti-Federalists – State and local government power – individualism