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George Washigton
Election of George Washington-It was held from Monday, December 15, 1788 to Saturday
January 10 1789. It was the first Presidential Campaign and election under the New Constitution.Nobody opposed Washington so therefore the only real big problem would be picking the vice President. Everyone Wanted him to be President anyways. Feb. 4th 1789. -
Bill of Rights
December 15th 1791. Bill of rights protected us individuals from the government. Gave us freedom of speech and many other things that help give us freedom. -
Beggining of the Federalist Party
December 5th 1792
The Federalist Party was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816, the era of the First Party System, with remnants lasting into the 1820s. The Federalists controlled the federal government until 1801. The party was formed by Alexander Hamilton, who, during George Washington's first term, built a network of supporters, largely urban bankers and businessmen. They believed in strict interpretation of the Constitution. -
Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a farmer led rebellion in protest to the new tax on whiskey. They compared the taxes to those of the British. This rebellion was very short lived because President George Washington sent the army to stop them. They fled quickly in fear of being arrested which demonstrated the new found strength of the national government. -
Election of John Adams
The United States presidential election of 1796 was the 3rd quadrennial Presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 4 to Wednesday, December 7, 1796. It was the first contested American presidential election and the only one in which a president and vice president were elected from opposing tickets. The ratification of the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution made such a result unlikely in the future -
XYZ Affair
April 1st 1798. An American diplomatic commission was sent to France in July 1797 to negotiate issues that were threatening to break out the US into war. The U.S diplomats, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall, and Elbridge Gerry, were approached through informal channels by agents of the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand. -
Alien Act
gave the President power to imprison or deport aliens suspected of activities posing a threat to the national Govt. -
Sedition Act
This act made it to where citizens could be fined or jailed if they criticized the government or its officials. After this act was passed republicans protested that this act was violating the constitution. The first amendment, they argued, protected freedom of speech and of the press. Jefferson warned that the new laws threatened american liberties: “they have brought into the lower house a sedition bill, which...undertakes to make printing certain matters criminal...Indeed this bill & the alie -
Election of Thomas Jefferson
The election of 1800 was the fourth quadrennial presidential election. Thomas Jefferson defeated Adams to be the 3rd President of the United States. It was held from Friday, October 31 to Wednesday, December 3, 1800. In what is sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800." -
John Marshall appointed
John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was the fourth Chief Justice of the United States (1801–1835) whose court opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches.Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist Party in Virginia and served in the United States House of Representatives from 1799 to 1800. He was Secretary of State under Previously, -
Marbury vs Madison
Feb. 24 1803 This Court case was the First court case the Supreme Court ever got. The Problem was that the night when John Adams was suppose to give office to Thomas Jefferson He was appointing Supreme Court Federalist to keep some Federalist Power in the Government. He had to do that all before midnight so he appointed James Madison to deliver the Appointments but he did not get to deliver all of them and Jefferson told him not to A man named WIlliam Marbury was to get Appointed but Jefferson -
Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana territory was purchased
in 1803 by Thomas Jefferson from the French. The purchase nearly doubled the size of the U.S’s territory. It also created another trade route from New Orleans down the mississippi river. -
Lewis and Clark
May 14 1804 was when, President Thomas Jefferson issued a expedition, it was led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. they explored what the U.S have bought with the Louisiana Purchase the explored west of the Mississippi river. Their goals were to create maps establish trade and explore the regions. -
Embargo Act
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general embargo enacted by the United States Congress against Great Britain and France. Proposed by Thomas Jefferson, the Embargo Act canceled all trades with foreign countries. This lowered profit rates dramatically. -
Election of James Madison
The United States presidential election of 1808 was the 6th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Friday, November 4 to Wednesday, December 7, 1808. The Democratic-Republican candidate James Madison defeated Federalist candidate Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. In this election, James Madison became the fourth president. -
Non-Intercourse Act
The Non-Intercourse Act is the collective name given to six statutes passed by the United States Congress in 1790, 1793, 1796, 1799, 1802, and 1834. The Act regulates commerce between Native Americans and non-Indians. That means that foreign relations in trade are limited. -
War of 1812
The War of 1812 was the 2nd battle for independence against the British.The cause of the war was impressment of American soldiers into the Navy. War was finally declared in 1812 by the 4th President of the United States, James Madison.The war was won by America and boosted their morale more than ever. -
Election of James Monroe
The United States presidential election of 1820 was the 9th quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Wednesday, November 1 to Wednesday, December 6, 1820. It was the third and last presidential election in United States history in which a candidate ran effectively unopposed. (The previous two were the presidential elections of 1789and1792, in which George Washington ran without serious opposition.) In 1820, President James Monroe and Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins were re-elected w -
Monroe Doctorine
December 2 1823 was when President James Monroe issued a Doctrine saying that Europe should keep away from the western Hemisphere because they would get involved into what they are doing such as war. There was a lot of Revolution going around in Latin America such as Colombia Brazil and all those Countries they were inspired in what we did to get independence from Britain. The European countries wanted to get involved but with this doctrine this scared off all the countrie because they knew what -
Gibbons v. Ogden
The supreme court upheld the power of the federal government to regulate trade between states. This event happened in 1824. The court struck down a new york law that tried to control steamboat travel between the states New York and New Jersey. The court ruled that a state could regulate trade only within its own borders. Only the federal government had the power to regulate interstate commerce, or trade between the different states. This decision helped the national economy by making it easier f -
McCulloch v. Maryland
McCulloch v. Maryland, was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland. Ended in creating the precedent that state governments may not interfere with foreign affairs. -
Beginning of Democratic-Republican Party
The Democratic-Republican Party was the political party organized by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in 1791-93. It stood in opposition to the Federalist party and controlled the Presidency and Congress, and most states, from 1801 to 1824, during the First party system. It split after the 1824 presidential election into two parties: the Democratic party and the short-lived National republican party (later succeeded by the Whig party, many of whose adherents eventually founded the modern Repub
