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Washington Inauguration
Washington took the oath of being the first president of the United states. This oath was administered by Robert R. Livingston who was the legal official of New York. President Washington and the members of Congress then went to the Senate Chamber, where Washington delivered the first beginning address to a joint session of Congress. -
James Madison introduced a whole bunch of proposed amendments to the newly ratified U.S. Constitution. That summer the House of Representatives debated Madison’s proposal, and on August 24 the House passed 17 amendments to be put on to the Constitution.Those 17 amendments were then sent to the Senate. On September 2, the Senate began considering amendments to the Constitution as proposed and passed in the House.They altered and consolidated the House amendments into 12 articles on Sept 9, 1789
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Already thinking beyond the reestablishment of public credit, Hamilton took great care in the report to counter alternative suggestions that were already circulating in the country. He particularly objected to the ideas of funding the debt at its depreciated value, good judgment between original and current holders of the notes, or forgoing an assumption of the debts of the states.
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It was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free white person[s] ... of good character", thus excluding Native Americans, indentured servants, slaves, free blacks and later Asians, although free blacks were allowed citizenship at the state level in a number of states.
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The House of Representatives passed a bill establishing the first Bank of the United States. In both the Senate and the house, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton of New York solved the issue of the support for the bank legislation. Hamilton said that a national bank is “a political machine, of the greatest importance to the state.” He stated the fact that a national bank would facilitate the payment of taxes, revenue for which the federal government was desperate.
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It was a uprising of farmers and distillers in western Pennsylvania in protest of a whiskey tax made by the federal government. Following years of aggression with tax collectors, the region finally exploded in a confrontation that resulted in President Washington sending in troops to quell what some feared could become a full-blown revolution. Opposition to the whiskey tax and the rebellion itself built support for the Republicans, who overtook Washington’s Federalist Party for power in 1802.
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was a battle fought on November 4, 1791, in the Northwest Territory of the United States of America. The U.S. Army faced the Western Confederacy of Native Americans, as part of the Northwest Indian War. It was "the most decisive defeat in the history of the American military" and its largest defeat ever by Native Americans. The Native Americans were led by Little Turtle of the Miamis, Blue Jacket of the Shawnees, and Buckongahelas of the Delawares.
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Edmond Charles Genet was a French diplomat sent to the United States during George Washington's first term as president in 1792. He planned to have Americans attack the British and Spanish in North America, countries then at war with France. Genet’s actions, known today as the Genet Affair, created a major controversy in foreign affairs at a time when Washington had pronounced American neutrality.
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General "Mad" Anthony Wayne and an army of more than 4,000 troops defeat a confederation of Native Americans (primarily Shawnee and Delaware) at the battle of Fallen Timbers, leading to the Treaty of Greenville and the surrender of vast Native American lands west and north of the Ohio River. It was the final battle of the Northwest Indian War.
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The Senate ratifies the Jay Treaty between the United States and Great Britain. Negotiated by John Jay, the treaty increases American access to British West Indian ports and establishes a commission to negotiate compensation for American cargo illegally seized by the British. In return, the United States agrees to the establishment of a commission to resolve debt disputes dating to before the Revolutionary War.
