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

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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