April 6, 1789 The Electoral College Chose George Washington John Adams became Vice President

April 6, 1789 The Electoral

College Chose George Washington

John Adams became Vice President

Recognition • From within the

country• From outside the

country

Unity• To create a

“country”

History Painting Creating a history Linking to the

classical past Creating a national

identity

Portraits Celebrate the

accomplishments of the Founders

What leaders look like

Prosperous citizens

Neoclassicism – uses Greek and Roman forms for symbols and functions; democracy and republic, values order, simplicity, reason and grandeur

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Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe, 1770National Gallery of Canada

Charles Willson Peale, George Washington at the Battle of Princeton, 1781 Yale University Art Gallery

Gilbert Stuart, Portrait of George Washington (The Athenaeum Portrait), 1796Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Thomas Cole, Distant View of Niagara Falls, 1830Art Institute of ChicagoHudson River School

Albert Bierstadt, Yosemite Valley, ca. 1868Oakland Museum of California

Hudson River School

Mary Cassatt, Mother and Child, 1889Cincinnati Museum of ArtAmerican Impressionism

Louis Comfort Tiffany, Lamp, 1904-15Metropolitan Museum of ArtArts and Crafts Movement

Georgia O’Keefe, Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, 1931Metropolitan Museum of ArtAmerican Modernism

Thomas Hart Benton, The Lord is My Shepard, 1926,

Whitney Museum of American Art

American RegionalismGeorge Bellows, Cliff Dwellers, 1913, Los Angeles County Museum of ArtAshcan School

William H. Johnson, Street Musicians,

1939-40, Smithsonian American Art

MuseumHarlem Renaissance

William Van Alen, architectChrysler Building, NYC, completed 1930Art Deco

Jackson Pollack, Autumn Rhythm, 1950Metropolitan Museum of ArtAbstract Expressionism Agnes Martin, Milk River, 1963

Whitney Museum of American ArtMinimalism

Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans (detail), 1962

Museum of Modern ArtPop Art

Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs, 1965Conceptual Art

Keith Haring, Untitled, from the portfolio Andy Mouse, 1986Smithsonian American Art Museum Grafitti/Pop Art

Jenny Holzer, For the Guggenheim, 2008

Conceptual Art

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National Gallery of Art http://www.nga.gov/ Smithsonian American Art Museum http://americanart.si.edu/ National Portrait Gallery http://www.npg.si.edu/ Hirshhorn Museum http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu

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The First Government

A- Bill of RightsB- Federal Judiciary Act of 1789: set up

a system of courts; - District court- Court of appeals

C- Created departments for the Executive branch (Ex: Dept. of War)

Rule of Law:• Everyone

accountable to law• Fair & equally

enforced Independent Courts

• No one controls• Creates a strong

democracy

Current Boundaries

What is a Precedent?

An example followed by future generations.

Precedent #1- Choosing department heads (cabinet)a. Sec. of State- Thomas Jeffersonb. Sec. of Treasury- Alexander Hamiltonc. Sec. of War- Henry Knoxd. Today there are 15 members of the cabinet.

***Reason: would unite country because would reassure the Americans that the President was not making critical decisions on his own.***

Precedent #2- Only held office for 2 terms (8 years)

***Reason: This would unite the 13 states because it would eliminate the possibility of the U.S. becoming like a monarchy or dictatorship where one person holds power for an extended period of time***

International• France

French Revolution began in 1789 wanted U.S. support

Got into a war with Britain

U.S. stayed neutral Why? Isolationism

International (Securing the Northwest Territory)• Britain

Still in western frontier Started seizing U.S.

ships trading with French West Indies

Jay’s Treaty signed- Britain leave U.S. and U.S. pay back pre-revolutionary war debt

•International(Mississippi River Access)

Spain

Closed Port of New Orleans: bad for U.S. trade Pinckney’s Treaty signed and Port re-opened

***31st parallel would be the southern border with Spain

***Problems with Native Americans Scuffles between

settlers & American Indians

Battle of Fallen Timbers: Troops sent to Northwest territory to stop Native American resistance. 1794 US troops defeated the resistance.

Treaty of Greenville:

Indians agreed to surrender their homeland and move west.

Domestic (The Whiskey Rebellion)

-Pennsylvania farmers refused to pay a tax on whiskey.

-To help make money & save crop many farmers made whiskey out of grain.

-Washington marched with 12,000 troops to western P.A. to take down rebellion. Never fought, the rebels surrendered.

-Washington wanted to prove that the federal government had the power and will to enforce laws.

Washington left office in 1797 In his farewell address he spoke of

the dangers to the American Republic• Political Parties

Would create more division in a country already divided by regions, geography and culture.

• Alliances Foreign alliances will bring the US into war