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US History timeline & concept chart: 1789-1860 Early Republic to Antebellum: Difference between revisions
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* | * 1789 Washington inaugurated<br><br> | ||
* 1790 Capital moved from Philadelphia to New York<br><br> | |||
* 1790 Capital moved from Philadelphia to New York | * 1791 Bill of Rights enacted<br><br> | ||
* 1791 Bill of Rights enacted | * 1791 First Bank of the United States <br><br> | ||
* 1791 First Bank of the United States | * 1793 Washington's 2nd term <br><br> | ||
* 1793 Washington's 2nd term | |||
* 1793 "Citizen Genet" episiode<br><br> | * 1793 "Citizen Genet" episiode<br><br> | ||
* 1794 Whiskey Rebellion <br><br> | * 1794 Whiskey Rebellion <br><br> | ||
* | * <br><br> | ||
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=== National Debt === | === National Debt === | ||
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=== Hamilton "Report on Manufactures" === | === Hamilton "Report on Manufactures" === | ||
* Major Events here | * Major Events here | ||
=== | === French Revolution & domestic U.S. politics === | ||
* Major Events here | * Major Events here | ||
=== subsection 2 === | === subsection 2 === | ||
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*** federal investment in transportation infrastructure | *** federal investment in transportation infrastructure | ||
*** laid basis for basic political/ ideological split | *** laid basis for basic political/ ideological split | ||
* | * political parties arise: | ||
* Federalists: | * Federalists: | ||
** Adams, Hamilton | ** Adams, Hamilton | ||
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** enumerated powers | ** enumerated powers | ||
** implied powers | ** implied powers | ||
** strict construction (word for word) < Jefferson/Madison | ** strict construction (word for word) << Jefferson/Madison interpretation | ||
** enumerated powers: powers specifically listed in Constitution | ** enumerated powers: powers specifically listed in Constitution | ||
*** “necessary and proper” = implied powers required to enforce enumerated powers | *** “necessary and proper” = implied powers required to enforce enumerated powers | ||
*** broad or loose construction (interpreted) <Hamilton, Adams | *** broad or loose construction (interpreted) << Hamilton, Adams interpretation | ||
*** interpreted “necessary and proper” loosely, expansively | *** interpreted “necessary and proper” loosely, expansively | ||
* French Revolution & domestic U.S. politics | |||
** Americans were largely sympathetic with French Revolution | |||
*** especially as anti-British | |||
** 1793 "Citizen Genet" affair | |||
*** French government sent Edmond-Charles Genêt to the U.S. to | |||
**** build support for its cause | |||
*** promote anti-British sentiments & encourage American attacks on British merchant ships | |||
**** by issuing "letters of marque and reprisal," which legalized attacks on British ships on behalf of France | |||
*** Washington infuriated by the interference | |||
**** issued the '''Proclamation of Neutrality''' on April 22, 1793 stating the America was neutral in the French / British conflict | |||
** '''Jay Treaty''' | |||
*** Secretary of State John Jay negotiated a treaty with England that: | |||
**** ensured US neutrality | |||
**** opened US ports to British and British ports in Caribbean to Americans | |||
**** British evacuated all remaining Western forts (was part of terms of Treaty of Paris, 1783, ending Revolutionary War) | |||
*** southerners were outraged by the Treaty | |||
*** the Senate approved the treaty and the House appropriated funding for its enactment, but only after bitter debate | |||
*** the Jay Treaty episode further solidified the partisan/ ideological divide between Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians | |||
* Washington '''Farewell Address''' | |||
** Washington declined to run for a 3rd term | |||
*** = important example of a leader stepping down from power and supporting a peaceful transfer of power | |||
*** Washington gave "valedictory address" (via written statement) to the American people in order to articulate his most important advice: | |||
**** follow the Constitution (rule of law) in order to ensure "that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual" | |||
***** especially in order to resolve differences | |||
**** avoid "foreign entanglements" (getting mixed up in the affairs of other countries, especially in Europe) | |||
**** | |||
click EXPAND for excerpt from Washington's Farewell Address: | |||
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<pre>The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts</pre> (for full text see [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Washington%27s_Farewell_Address Washington's Farewell Address (wikisource)] | |||
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Other: | Other: | ||
* | * '''Republican Motherhood''' | ||
** | ** idea that a woman's role was to nurture virtuous male citizens | ||
* Northwest Territories | * '''Northwest Territories''' | ||
* | * '''Indian Wars''' | ||
* States added to Union after original 13: | |||
*States added to Union after original 13: | |||
** Vermont (territory ceded by New York) 1791 | ** Vermont (territory ceded by New York) 1791 | ||
** Kentucky (“western”), 1792 | ** Kentucky (“western”), 1792 | ||
** Tennessee (“western”), 1796 | ** Tennessee (“western”), 1796 | ||
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