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.

• 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

• 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.

• Urged Congress to declare war in 1812.
  • Asked for an embargo against Britain and after its expiration consisted on a war.

• 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.

• Set tariff to get money for building roads and canals.
• The consequences of this tariff left the North happy, but the South - not.

• 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.