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| 284601919 | 1789 | Constitution formally put into effect; Judiciary Act; Washington elected prez; French revolution begins | |
| 284601920 | 1790 | First official census | |
| 284601921 | 1791 | Bill of Rights adopted; Vermont becomes 14th state; Bank of the United States created; Excise tax passed | |
| 284601922 | 1792 | Washington reelected president | |
| 284601923 | 1792-1793 | Federalist and DR parties formed | |
| 284601924 | 1793 | Louis XVI beheaded; radical phase of French Revolution; France declares war on Britain and Spain; Washington's Neutrality Proclamation; Citizen Genet affair | |
| 284601925 | 1794 | Whiskey Rebellion; Battle of Fallen Timbers; Jay's Treaty with Britain | |
| 284601926 | 1795 | Treaty of Greenville; Indians cede Ohio; Pinckney's Treaty with Spain | |
| 284601927 | 1796 | Washington's Farewell Address | |
| 284601928 | 1797 | Adams becomes president; XYZ affair | |
| 284601929 | 1798 | Alien and Sedition Acts | |
| 284601930 | 1798-1799 | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | |
| 284601931 | 1798-1800 | undeclared war with France | |
| 284601932 | 1800 | Convention of 1800; peace with France | |
| 284601933 | Thomas Jefferson | Secretary of State under Washington | |
| 284601934 | Alexander Hamilton | Secretary of Treasury under Washington | |
| 284601935 | Henry Knox | Secretary of War under Washington | |
| 284601936 | James Madison | drafted the amendments to the Constitution known as the Bill of Rights | |
| 284601937 | freedom of religion, press, speech, right to bear arms, be tried by a jury; assemble and petition the gov; no cruel and unusual punishments; no gov seizure of private property | first ten amendments to the Constitution | |
| 284601938 | Ninth Amendment | just because rights weren't in the Bill of Rights does not mean they are not a right | |
| 284601939 | Tenth Amendment | reserves all rights not delegated or prohibited by the Constitution to the States or to the people | |
| 284601940 | Judiciary Act of 1789 | organized the Supreme Court with a chief justice and 5 associates as well as federal district and circuit courts; established office of the attorney general | |
| 284601941 | John Jay | first chief justice of the US | |
| 284601942 | Hamilton | urged Congress to pay debt at par and for the states to assume the other states' debt | |
| 284601943 | dutiable imports, whiskey | things taxed under Hamilton; to produce revenue and protect infant industries | |
| 284601944 | necessary and proper clause | Government can make any laws necessary and proper to carry out power | |
| 284601945 | Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 | § Proclaimed government's official neutrality in the widening conflict of the French Revolution § Urged Americans to be impartial § Major prop of isolationist tradition § Very controversial | |
| 284601946 | Edmond Genet | attempted to take advantage of the French-US alliance; did not believe that the Proclamation demonstrated the will of the people; attempted to recruit armies to invade Canada, Florida, and Louisiana | |
| 284601947 | Battle of Fallen Timbers | US vs. Indian battle; US victory under general "Mad Anthony" Wayne; British refused to shelter the Native Americans | |
| 284601948 | Treaty of Greenville | □ Indians gave up much of the Old Northwest in return for ® 20,000 and an annuity of 9,000 ® The right to hunt the lands they ceded ® Recognition of their sovereign status | |
| 284601949 | Jay's Treaty | British promised to evacuate their US posts and pay damages for ship seizures (didn't actually do anything); Jay promised to pay debts of American merchants to the British | |
| 284601950 | Pinckney's Treaty | Spain granted the Americans everything they wanted in fear of an Anglo-American alliance; Free navigation of the Mississippi + disputed territory north of Florida | |
| 284601951 | Alien and Sedition Acts | ○ 1: raised residence requirements for aliens who decided to become citizens from five years to fourteen § Violated open door hospitality and speedy assimilation ○ 2: president could deport aliens in times of peace ○ 3: president could deport or imprison aliens in times of hostility § Arbitrary grant of executive power contrary to American tradition § Anyone who impeded the policies of the govt or falsely defamed its officials could be fined or imprisoned | |
| 284601952 | Compact Theory | states had entered a compact when they created the federal government regarding its jurisdiction § The states were the judge of whether the federal government had broken the compact by overstepping the authority they had been granted violates THE SOCIAL CONTRACT |
