Big Picture part 2

By Bookclub

  • GW elected president (69 delegates) Adams VP (34 delegates

  • GW takes the oath of office in NYC

    GW 57 years old
    struck a happy medium between regal dignity and republican austerity
    John Adams by his side
    GW's nervous mumbling hardly audible
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    GW creates Cabinet from scratch

  • Elias Boudinot (NJ) proposes a department of finance

    proposed department becomes the Treasury Dept and
    a flash point of controversy in the new government
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    French Revolution

    starts with gory atrocities of Bastille's fall
    Jefferson highly selective vision -- focused on hopeful aspects filtered out the carnage
    9-21 French Republic proclaimed
    events did occur after this...Marie Antoinette executed etc.

  • GW signs bill creating Treasury Dept

  • H nominated to the Treasury job (34 years old)

  • Jefferson sets off to take his Sec of State role

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    GW - pneumonia too feeble H de facto head of state

  • Residence Act - Capital on Potomac w/ Temp capital in Philly

    This was the trade H made giving away NYC as capital location and moving temp capital to Philly

  • Gvt offices relocate to Philly

  • GW 2nd term, Adams VP (77-50 for Clinton)

  • GW sworn in for 2nd term

  • Citizen Genet arrives - Charleston, SC

  • Citizen Genet arrives - Philly

    H delays debt payments owed France

  • Jefferson tells Genet to stop outfitting privateers

  • Genet colossal blunder - he rejected the notion of American neutrality

    Ask American's to help rig French privateers in US ports
    slapping GW in the face
    Jefferson's enchantment with Genet disappears

  • GW held cabinet meeting to ask for Genet's recall

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    Yellow Fever epidemic - Philly

    5000 dead most due to yellow fever in this time period
    by sept end of sep 20,000 people fled

  • Jefferson has to draft the letter to France asking for Genet's recall

    part of the agreement to keep the stuff about Genet silent

  • Jefferson quits- agrees to stay until year end

  • Freneau's paper folds due to yellow fever and he steps down as translator

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    Cabinet met in Germantown, NY due to yellow fever in Philly

    GW and H wanted to get back to work (gvt had been suspended)
    GW wanted to know if he had the power to change the seat of gvt temporarily.
    H said the president could "recommend" meeting elsewhere

  • H got wind of violence in France and knew Genet would be killed

    GW allowed Genet to stay in US
    Genet married Cornelia Clinton
    Jefferson exited the cabinet

  • British fleet capture 250 American merchant ships, Federalist feel betrayed

  • Congress resumes in Philly - would render final verdict on H's conduct as secretary treasurer

  • Jefferson's last day as Secretary of State

    Failed to eject H from the cabinet and lost GW's favor

  • John Jay sent to England as envoy for a treaty and outstanding issues from Paris treaty

    each country would receive most favored nations status = lowest possible duties they traded

  • Blood ran in rivers and executions - Monroe arrives in France lauds "heroic valor" of French troops

    refugees flooded Philly - 1 in 10 people were French
    H felt at home among elegant, reform-minded aristocrats

  • Whiskey protesters terrorizing inspectors, erecting guillotines, ready to attack

    local farmers believed they bore the brunt of the excise tax and resented the interference of recreational consumption

  • GW has enough - put an end to the rebellion and ordered troops to Western PA

  • GW and H set off for war heading west to join the troops

  • GW and H reach rendez vous location -people now submit to tax w/o coercion

  • GW returns to Philly leaving H and Lee to continue

  • John Jay signs final version of Jay Treaty and stays until after winter

  • H leaves the Treasury job

  • H's report on gvt finance became a bill passed by Congress

  • Jay Treaty arrives in Philly

  • Senate passes Jay Treaty - with article 12 suspended

  • Jay Treaty appears in Philly newspaper and creates hullabaloo

  • H sends GW detailed analysis of Jay Treaty (requested by GW)

    approved first 10 articles, condemned article 12 (restricting trade with West Indies), harsh words for 18(list of contraband good that could be seized
    Main message - peace for America
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    H writes Defense essays - defending the Jay Treaty

  • GW signs the Jay Treaty

  • GW asks H to write his opening address to Congress

  • Madison supports congressional demand for GW to turn over instructions give to John Jay

    instructions H pretty much put together
    H lists 13 reasons why GW doesn't have to (executive privilege)
    By end of March H tells GW to send no response to H of R at all
    GW denies Congress the instructions

  • H of R eeks out a victory (51-48) for Jay Treaty funding - Defense essays may have been the tipping point

  • GW's farewell address (H wrote) appears in Claypoole's publication

    meant to be printed not spoken
    printed in newspapers across the nation

  • Ballots counted - split ticket Adams president (71) Jefferson VP (68)

    Pinckney 59 Burr 30
    New England solidly for Adams and H's strategy failed with Pinckney losing the New England 18 votes
    Adams viewed thin victory a blow to his pride...blamed H and Jefferson
    Adams administration never supported by either party

  • Adams sworn into presidency

  • Adams message to Congress denouncing France for ejecting Pinckney and taking ships

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    2nd Yellow Fever epidemic

  • 3-man delegation sent to France met by Talleyrand

    Marshall, Pinckney, Gerry
    Talleyrand friend and admirer of H
    But a lame foreign minister
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    XYZ Affair

    3 delegates sent to France to keep the peace, but were subjected to bribes in dealing with 3 minions of Talleyrand

  • Delegates arrive Paris and shuttled off to deal with minions (XYZ)

  • Mission is a disaster - XYZ Papers made for shocking reading

  • XYZ Papers published and resentment toward France bursts forth

    XYZ tried to exhort money from America
    Republicans tried to contrive ways to rationalize what was happening (Jefferson the pro France guy)

  • Fear of French invasion - Congress provides for Navy Dept & army

    French privateer captures American vessels outside NY harbor
    Quasi war with France

  • Sedition Act - passed

    violates first amendment of constitution

  • Naturalization Act - passed

  • Alien Act - passed

  • Quasi war with France - Additional army, passed a bill to raise an army

    12 infantry
    6 cavalry companies

  • Senate approves GW to lead army w/o asking GW

  • Alien Enemies Act - passed

  • Adams submits GWs list for Senate approval