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Washington is inaugurated. suggestions for addressing the president include "Excellency" and "Highness"
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U.S. population totals 3.9 million including app. 76000 African american most of which are enslaved. Benjamin Franklin dies in Philidelphia
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Becomes part of the Constitution. First bank of the United States is chartered for a twenty-year period.
Vermont enters the Union as the 14th state -
Washington and Adams are re-elected as president and vice-president.
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Neutrality as war breaks out between France and Great Britain.
Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin -
Farmers protest the excise tax on whiskey. U.S. troops defeat the Shawnee Indians.
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is opened for settlement after Indian defeat at Fallen timbers. Spain allows the U.S. to navigation rights on the mississippi
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John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson for president
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John Adams is inaugurated as second president of the United States.
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France attempts to bribe U.S. commissioners in Paris, sparking the building tension between the nations.
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He dies in Virginia at age 67 Later that year Patrick Henry dies in Virginia at age 63
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U.S. population totals 5.3 million including 1 million African American Slaves.
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Tripoli declares war on U.S. Jefferson sends U.S. ships to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Act allows the expire by Congress
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is purchased from France for $15 million nearly doubling the size of the U.S.
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Jefferson is re-elected president and George Clinton elected vice pres.
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after us troops capture Darna.
Piracy by Barbary States continues until 1815 -
Lewis and Clark expedition ends with return to St. Louis
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ban passed by Congress, as required by the Constitution. Embargo Act is passed by Congress in response to British and French interference with U.S. trade
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James Madison elected president and George Clinton re-elected vice president
