Precedents
This group was made up of department heads that could advise the president in decisions and is one of Washington's first precedents.
What is the Cabinet?
The Secretary of State
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The court system established in Washington's presidency.
What is the Supreme Court?
This is how the Whiskey Rebellion ended.
What was Washington leading 13,000 men to Western Pennsylvania to end the rebellion?
This was the name of the letter that Washington wrote when leaving office.
What is the Farewell Address?
This was an annual message to Congress delivered by the President and another precedent.
What is the State of the Union Address?
The Secretary of WAR
Who was Henry Knox?
This act was signed to to establish the US court system.
What is the Judiciary Act of 1789?
These are two reasons the farmers of Western Pennsylvania had to be upset about the tax on Whiskey.
What are their frustration with the government for not helping with the Native American issues, and that they felt the wealthy Easterners were taking advantage of them?
This is how many terms Washington served as president and it also became a precedent.
What is two only?
This precedent helped stabilize the economy.
What is the creation of the National Bank?
Secretary of Treasury
Who was Alexander Hamilton?
These two actions suggested by Hamilton where not agreed on by Jefferson.
What are assuming the revolutionary debt, and creating a national bank?
This group had to ratify the treaty.
What is the Senate?
This let the country know that presidents only hold power while they serve and was another precedent.
What is a peaceful transition?
These two precents were Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion.
What are the right to Tax and the right to enforce national laws?
Attorney General
Who was Edmund Randolph?
These two factions were created with the disagreement of two Cabinet members.
What are Hamilton and his backers and Jefferson and his backers?
These two things were negotiated in Jay's Treaty.
What was the withdrawal of British Military from the Northwest Territory and to grant the US “most favored nation” status for trade with Great Britain?
Washington offered these three pieces of advice in his letter to the country.
What are choosing unity, putting aside regional and political divisions, and the US remaining neutral when other countries went to war?
These two precedents were set when Washington left office.
What are the president serving two terms only and a peaceful transition?
The definition of CABINET
What is a group of advisors to the president who each head a department of the executive branch?
Name some domestic challenges that affected the national economy during Washington's presidency.
What are Revolutionary War debts, currency circulation, businesses and people needed loans, and ways to handle nations financial affairs?
These two big problems centered around the British involvement in the United States.
What were the British Army being on US Territory and the British blocking the US from British ports and trade?
February 22
What is Washington's birthday and the day a selected Senator reads Washington's Farewell Address every year?