
George Washington
- Accepted the bond proposal.
- During the Wiskey Rebellion, he sent out millitia to quite down the mob.
- Series of disturbances in 1794 aimed against a federal excise tax on whiskey. Violent riots prompted President George Washington to request that the governors of Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, and Virginia mobilize contingents of militia.
Samuel Adams
- Signed the Alien Act.
- The Alien Acts approved by Congress June 25 and July 6 empower President Adams to order any alien from the country and imprison any alien in time of war
Thomas Jefferson
- Bought the port of New Orleans
- Allowed the Alien Act to last.
- Reduced the naturalization process to 5 years.
- Naturalization, process by which a state confers its citizenship or nationality on a foreigner.
James Madison
- Urged Congress to declare war in 1812.
- Asked for an embargo against Britain and after its expiration consisted on a war.
James Monroe
- Wrote the Monroe Doctorine
- Stated in 1823. Asserted that European powers could no longer colonize the American continents and should not interfere with the newly independent Spanish American republics.
John Quincy Adams
- Set tariff to get money for building roads and canals.
- The consequences of this tariff left the North happy, but the South - not.
Andrew Jackson
- Forced the Cherokee off land.
- Set tariff of abomination.
- The Tariff of Abominations signed into law May 19 has raised duties on manufactured goods.
Proposed the bank charter.