The Washington and Adams Administrations

NOT one of the original executive branch departments established by Congress in 1789

• Treasury

• State

• Labor

• War

Agreement by which Alexander Hamilton's financial plan was able to pass through Congress and a location along the Potomac River was chosen for the permanent national capital

• Virginia Compromise

• Jefferson's Dinner Compromise

• Compromise of 1790

• Great Compromise

Political party led by Thomas Jefferson

• Federalist

• Democratic-Republican

• Antifederalist

• Whig

Statement issued by President Washington in 1793 that affirmed the United States would not intervene in the French Revolution

• Jay Treaty

• Treaty of Paris

• Convention of Versailles

• Proclamation of Neutrality

Main reason that Jefferson, Madison, and many other Southerners opposed the establishment of a national bank

• They did not want federal money held in a Northern bank

• A national bank is not in the federal government's enumerated powers

• They felt a national bank could lead to a major financial crisis

• A national bank contributed to the nation's financial issues under the Articles

Area from which the Federalist Party received some of its strongest support

• The South

• The West

• Rural America

• The Northeast

NOT warned against by President Washington in his Farewell Address

• Federalism

• Sectionalism

• Political parties

• International alliances

Undeclared naval war between the United States and France following a 1798 halt in Franco-American trade

• French Revolution

• Quasi-War

• War of the High Seas

• John Jay's War

Four laws passed by Congress with President Adams' support in 1798 that established a waiting period for U.S. citizenship, authorized the president to deport "dangerous" aliens, and prohibited public criticism of the federal government

• Citizenship and Libel Acts

• Adams Laws of 1798

• Bill of Rights

• Alien and Sedition Acts

Foreign power with which the Federalist Party generally aligned itself

• France

• Great Britain

• The Netherlands

• Italy