Ach His5 Ch2
-
Upload
mom2wildones3 -
Category
Documents
-
view
193 -
download
0
description
Transcript of Ach His5 Ch2
The First CabinetThomas JeffersonSecretary of State
• In charge of foreign affairs• Helped work out treaties &
agreements with other countries
• Became the 3rd president
Edmund RandolphAttorney General
• Advises the president on legal matters
• Attorney for the government
The First CabinetHenry Knox
Secretary of War
• In charge of the Army & the Navy
• Later this post would be called Secretary of Defense
Alexander HamiltonSecretary of the Treasury
• Oversee financial affairs• Pay off war debts• Brilliant in money matters
Washington D.C.(District of Columbia)
• Located in the South between Maryland & Virginia• Thomas Jefferson & Alexander Hamilton worked this
compromise out• The Southern states agreed to help pay the war debts
TaxesTariff
• Hamilton proposed a tax on imported goods
• Hoped to raise money & help establish American business
• Did not produce enough revenue
Excise Tax• When the tariff failed to produce
enough money, Hamilton proposed an excise tax
• This would products made in America
$
Early Treaties
The Jay Treaty
• Washington sent Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Jay to England
• England agreed to withdraw its troops and give up its forts around the Great Lakes.
• It didn’t deal with the issue of England taking American sailors.
The Pinckney Treaty • The coast of the Gulf of Mexico
belonged to Spain • Spain controlled trade along the
Mississippi River • Spain signed a treaty with Thomas
Pinckney settling the area in the Florida panhandle and making New Orleans a free port
John Adams• Became the 2nd president• Ran as a Federalist • Ran against Thomas
Jefferson who was a Democratic-Republican
• Jefferson became his Vice President
• They had once been friends but now disagreed over many things
The XYZ Affair America refused to pay a bribe to France.
Unpopular Laws
• President given power to expel any foreigner with the Alien Act
• Freedom of speech and freedom of the press were taken away with the Sedition Act