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Do you think it is right for the U.S. government to use force to keep order?

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B. Yes, under certain circumstances

C. No, never

Chapter 8 The Federalist Era

1789-1800

Section 2 Early Challenges

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1. Whiskey Rebellion

2. Securing the Trans-Appalachian West

3. French Revolution

What challenges did the United States face during Washington’s administration?

The Whiskey Rebellion • Part of Hamilton’s

financial plan was a tax on whiskey

• 1794

• Tax on whiskey angered frontier farmers

• Farmers also had trouble taking their crops to market because of bad roads

• They decided to make their grain into whiskey

More of the Whiskey Rebellion • Whiskey would be

easier to carry

• They often used

whiskey like money to

buy salt, sugar, nails,

and ammunition

• Did not have money to

pay taxes

• The whiskey tax

seemed as unfair as

British taxes had been

• Some feared more

taxes would follow

Results of the Whiskey Rebellion • Farmers in western

Pennsylvania refused to pay the tax

• Farmers took up arms and chased away the tax collectors

• Hamilton convinced Washington that troops should be sent to put down the rebellion

• 13,000 soldiers went into western Pennsylvania

• The rebels fled before a fight

• Showed that the National Government had the power and will to enforce laws

Struggle Over the West • Washington worried

about European ambitions for the Northwest Territory

• Washington signed treaties with the Indians

• He hoped that this would lessen the influence of the British and Spanish on them

• American settlers ignored the treaties and moved onto Indian land

• Fighting soon broke out

Washington Sends an Army • Washington sends in

General Arthur St. Clair

• He was to restore order in the Northwest Territory

• November 1791, St. Clair’s forces were defeated by Little Turtle, chief of the Miami people

• More than 600 American soldiers died in the battle by the Wabash River

Alliance With France? • Many believed an

alliance with France would help them defeat the British, Spanish, and Indians in the West

• The possibility of French involvement prompted Britain to take action in the West

• The British urged Indians to destroy American settlements west of the Appalachians

• The British began building a new fort in Ohio

More Fighting • The Native Americans

demanded that all settlers north of the Ohio River leave the territory

• Washington sent another army under Anthony Wayne

• 2,000 Indian troops planned to ambush Wayne’s smaller force

• Wayne’s troops moved closer to Fort Miami

The Battle of Fallen Timbers • Wayne knew that it

was an Indian custom not to eat before battle

• The warriors waited three days for Wayne’s force

• Grew weaker and hungrier

• Wayne soundly defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers

After the Battle of Fallen Timbers • Indians fled to Fort Miami

• British closed the gate on

them

• British would not help them

• Battle of Fallen Timbers

crushed the Indians’ hope of

keeping their land

• Indians signed the Treaty of

Greenville- agreeing to

surrender their homelands in

what is now Ohio

Problems with Europe • Many Americans cheered

the French Revolution, but it soon grew bloody

• France and Britain went to war and Washington hoped to maintain neutrality

• The French sent diplomat Edmund Genet to recruit American volunteers

• Washington then issued a Proclamation of Neutrality

• French and British warships were also barred from American ports

The British Fight Back • British warships captured

American ships that traded with France

• The British forced American sailors to join the British navy (impressment)

• Washington sent John Jay to negotiate peace with Britain, and Jay’s Treaty was signed

• Britain agreed to leave American soil

• It said nothing about the impressment or British interference in trade

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A. Spain

B. France

C. Britain

D. Russia

Treaty With Spain • Spain feared the US and

Britain would work

together against them in

North America

• Thomas Pickney was

sent to Spain to settle

the differences

• 1795- Pickney’s Treaty

gave the Americans free

navigation of the

Mississippi River and the

right to trade at New

Orleans

Washington’s Farewell • After two terms

• In his farewell he attacked political parties

• Also attacked the involvement in foreign affairs

• “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations…”

• “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances”

• These words influenced the nation’s foreign policy for more than 100 years

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1. Whiskey Rebellion

2. Securing the Trans-Appalachian West

3. French Revolution

What challenges did the United States face during Washington’s administration?

Chapter 8 Section 2 Quiz

During the Whiskey Rebellion, farmers

peacefully protested a special tax.

A. True

B. False

Washington served three terms

as president. A. True

B. False

Alexander Hamilton's taxes led

to rebellion in A. the Oregon

country.

B. western

Pennsylvania.

C. Virginia.

D. Boston.

French and British warships were

barred from American ports by the

A. Declaration of

War.

B. Treaty of Britain.

C. Treaty of Paris.

D. Proclamation of

Neutrality.

What did George Washington consider

a grave danger to the new nation?

A. settlers moving

west

B. national taxes

C. growth of political

parties

D. France's influence