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Washington and Congress
Dilemma facing Washington
• Constitutional Convention of 1787– Constriction is created• Plan for how the government will run
• Washington’s task– Take the ideas of the constitution and use them to
create a government
Creating a Bureaucracy
• Bureaucracy is an organization of government systems
• Washington creates a Cabinet to help him run the state.
Cabinet
• 1789 Heads of States created by Constitution• Cabinet is made up of all the heads of states• Advisers Washington
-Secretary of State – Thomas Jefferson-Secretary of War – General Henry Knox-Secretary of Treasury – Alexander Hamilton-Attorney General – Edmund Randolf
Bill of Rights
• Federalists had promised to add the amendments.
• James Madison• Based on the Virginia Declaration of Rights• 12 Constitutional Amendments prepared,10
were approved.• First 8 protect individual rights• Last 2 limit government.
Financing the new government
• Government needed revenue (source of Income)
• James Madison and Alexander Hamilton disagreed on how this should happen
Madison’s Plan
• Wanted the government to raise money using tariffs
• Tariffs are a tax on imports• Congress passes Tariff of 1789• Shippers had to pay Tonnage– Angered South
Alexander Hamilton’s Plan
• Supported Tariff of 1789• Believed the Government should be able to
borrow money• Wanted to redeem revolutionary war bonds at
face value.• South is worried this will make north more
powerful.
War bonds compromise
• If Southern congressmen vote to redeem bonds at face value
• US capital moves from New York to area in Maryland on Potomac River
• Area would be called District of Columbia
Bank of the United States
• Hamilton wants a National Bank• Southerners opposed to the plan• Madison, Jefferson and Randolph says the
congress does not have the power to create a national bank
Article 1 Sec 8
• Hamilton argued Article 1 Sec 8• Implied Powers• “to make laws which shall be necessary and
proper” ~ Article 1 Sec 8• Washington Agrees signs bill• Bank of United States Created with 20 year
charter.
Whiskey Rebellion
• 1791 congress imposes a tax on the manufacture of whiskey
• Farmers in the Western US enraged• Rebel 1794• Washington responds by sending 15,000
troops
Political Parties Emerge
• Hamilton’s financial practice divide congress• Divisions become the nations first political
parties.• Madison and Jefferson’s followers become the
democratic-republicans (democrats later, republicans today)
• Hamilton’s followers: Federalists
Partisan Politics
Madison/Jefferson’s Democrats
• Strength of the Nation in Farming (Agrarianism)
• Commerce can lead to division– Rich vs. Poor.
Hamilton’s Federalists• Strong National
Government• Democracy dangerous to
liberty• Manufacturing and trade
Vocabulary Words
• Cabinet• Bond• Speculator• Enumerated Power• Implied Power
• Tariff of 1789 • Bank of United States• Whiskey Rebellion• Democratic-Republican• Federalist
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