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Tariff of 1789
The first major Act passed in the United States under its present Constitution of 1789 and had two purposes as stated in Section I of the Act. -
Judiciary Act, 1789
Signed into law by President George Washington. Article III of the Constitution established a Supreme Court, but left to Congress the authority to create lower federal courts as needed. -
Philadelphia as the nation’s capital, 1790
The Resistance Act is the United States federal law that settled the question of locating the capital of the United States, -
First Bank of United States , 1791-1811
Commonly known as the First Bank of the United States, was a national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United States Congress. -
The Bill of Rights, 1791
The first 10 Amendments of the Constitution. -
Fugitive Slave law, 1793
An Act of the United States Congress to give effect to the Fugitive Slave Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article 4, Section 2, Clause 3) -
French Revolution - Citizen Genet, 1793
Edmond-Charles Genet (January 8, 1763 – July 14, 1834), also known as Citizen Genet, was the French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution. -
Whiskey Rebellion, 1794
The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington. -
Eli Whitney granted patent for the cotton gin, 1794
A cotton gin is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, allowing for much greater productivity than manual cotton separation. -
Jay’s Treaty with England, 1795
A 1795 treaty between the United States and Great Britain that is credited with averting war. -
Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain, 1795
Pinckney's Treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo or the Treaty of Madrid, was signed in San Lorenzo de El Escorial on October 27, 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain. -
Farewell Address, 1796
Was a letter written by the first American President, George Washington, to "The People of the United States of America". -
XYZ Affair, 1797
A political and diplomatic episode in 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the United States and Republican France that led to an undeclared war called the Quasi-War. -
Naturalization Act, 1798
The Naturalization Act, passed by the United States Congress on June 18, 1798 (1 Stat. 566), increased the period necessary for immigrants to become naturalized citizens in the United States from 5 to 14 years -
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 1798
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions (or Resolves) were political statements drafted in 1798 and 1799, in which the Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. -
Alien Act, Sedition Act, 1798
Were four (4) bills that were passed by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress and signed into law by President John Adams in 1798, the result of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. -
"Midnight Appointments"/Judiciary Act of 1801
Represented an effort to solve an issue in the U.S. Supreme Court during the early 19th century.
