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The Constitution of the United States was signed.
After a long battle between the Federalists and the Anti- Federalists, the constitution was finally ratified and signed. This document is still what our government goes by today. -
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Chapter 7 AP History Timeline
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George Washington's inauguration
George Washington was elected as the first president. He was the only person to run for president that would ever get a unanimous vote. He had many challenges to face after taking control of a country that just earned its freedom. -
Congress approves Hamilton's plan for Funding and Assumptions
Hamilton made a plan that would take care of the country's growing debt. Under his plan, the US promissed to fund its foreign and domestic obligations at full face value. Second, the secretary urged the federal government to assume responsibility for paying the remaining state debts. -
Bank of the US is Chartered
The First Bank was chartered this year. It lasted around 20 years. The Bank was created to handle the financial needs and requirements of the central government of the newly formed United States, which had previously been thirteen individual states with their own banks, currencies, financial institutions, and policies. -
Hamilton's Report o Manufacturers was rejected.
This lengthy document suggested ways by which the federal government might stimulate manufacturing. If the country wanted to free itself from dependence on European imports, then it had to develop its own industry, textile mills, for example. Jefferson attacked his idea. he said that this promoted leaving the country side for urban areas. because of this, it was defeated -
France Declares War On Great Britain
The leaders of the Revolutionary France called it the "war of all peoples against all kings". These powerful European rivals immediately challenged the official American position on shipping. "free ships make free goods" meaning that belligerants should not interefere with the shipping of neutral carriers. -
Genet affair strains relations with France
He endangered American neutrality in the war between France and Britain, which Washington had pointedly declared in his Neutrality Proclamation of April 22. When Genêt met with Washington, he asked for what amounted to a suspension of American neutrality. When he was turned down by the Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and informed that his actions were unacceptable, Meanwhile, Genêt's privateers were capturing British ships, and his militia was preparing to move against the Spainish -
Jefferson resigns as Secretary of State
Jefferson retired in late 1793 where he continued to oppose the policies of Hamilton and Washington. However, the Jay Treaty of 1794, led by Hamilton, brought peace and trade with Britain – while Madison, with strong support from Jefferson, wanted, "to strangle the former mother country" without going to war. -
Whiskey Rebellion put down by US Army.
The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the willingness and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws. The whiskey excise remained difficult to collect, however. The events contributed to the formation of political parties in the United States. -
Hamilton Resigns as Secretary of Treasury
Hamilton was very upset with Washington. He trusted him without doubt. .Even after that, he remained close to Washington and his family, mainly as an adviser and a friend. -
Jays Treaty divides the nation
Thomas Jefferson and James Madison strongly opposed the Treaty the liked France. There was an argument between the federalist and the democrat-republicans. They wanted to establish "a direct system of commercial hostility with Great Britain," even at the risk of war. -
Washington publishes Farewell Address
This formerly declared his intention to retire from presidency. In this address, which was in newspapers everywhere, he warned against all political factions. Most of this was written by Hamilton, who wrote a draft, originally written by Madison many years earlier, the address served narrowly partisan ends. -
John Adams is elected as president.
This election took place during a time of mutual distrust. Jefferson became vice president. the federalists were convinced that their republican opponents wanted to hand the gov't over to french radicals. During the campaign, the feds sowed the seeds of their entual destruction. -
XYZ Affair posions US Relations with France.
Foreign affairs soon became very hostile. This got Adams' full attention. Relations between France and America had deteriorated. The French openly tried to influence the election of 1796 in favor of the Republicans.They majorly embarrassed americans. -
Quasi War with France.
This was an undeclared war fought mostly at sea between the United States and the French. In the United States, the conflict was sometimes also referred to as the Franco-American War. Was fought because of the growing tensions between the two nations. -
Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts.
This legislation authorized the use of federal courts and the powers of the presidency to silence the republicans. The acts were born of fear and vindictiveness, and in their efforts to punish the followers of jefferson, the federalists created the nation's first major crisis over civil liberties -
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions protest the Alien and Sedition Acts
Both statements vigoruously defended the rights of individual assemblies to interpret constitutionality of a federal law. Jefferson wrote the Kentucky resolution, Madison wrote the Virginia resolution. -
George Washington Dies
George Washington finished his second term as the first President of the United States in 1797. Weary of the political infighting surrounding the presidency, he longed for the peace of retirement to his beloved Mount Vernon. Unfortunately, his solitude lasted less than three years as he died on December 14, 1799 at age 67. -
Convention of Mortefontaine is signed with France, ending the Quasi-War
This was a treaty between the United States and France to settle the hostilities that had occurred during the Quasi-War. This happened in the Caribbean, and it had existed since the American delegation to France, arriving in 1797, had been told that America had to pay $250,000 to see—not negotiate with—the French ambassador. -
The House of Representatives elected Thomas Jefferson as president.
Jefferson owed his election victory to the South's inflated number of Electors, which counted slaves under the three-fifths compromise. After his election in 1800, some called him the "Negro President",
