THE PRESIDENTS
An APUSH Historical Contextual
Review of Presidential
Administrations
, George Washington (1789-1797)
• Era
– Period 3 (1754-1800)
– Constitutional Period
• Political Developments
– Judiciary Act of 1789
– Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
– Federalist Party
– Democratic-Republican Party
• Economic Developments
– Assumption Plan (1790)
– First National Bank of the United States (1791)
– Samuel Slater’s factory (1791)
– Cotton gin by Eli Whitney (1793)
• Social and Cultural Developments
– Republican motherhood
• Foreign Policy Developments
– French Revolution
• Citizen Genet (1793)
– Jay Treaty (1794)
– Pinckney’s Treaty (1795)
, John Adams (Federalist) (1797-1801)
• Era
– Period 3 (1754-1800)
– Constitutional Period
• Political Developments
– Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
– Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
(1798-1799)
– Midnight Judges and Marshall Court
(1801)
• Social and Cultural Developments
– Republican motherhood
– Second Great Awakening
• Foreign Developments
– XYZ Affair (1797-1798)
– Quasi War (1798-1800)
, Thomas Jefferson (D-R) (1801-1809)
• Era
– Period 4 (1800-1848)
– Age of Jefferson
• Political Developments
– Election of 1800/Revolution of 1800
– Marbury v. Madison (1803)
– Louisiana Purchase (1803)
• Economic Developments
– Embargo Act of 1807
– Steamboat Clermont (1807)
• Social and Cultural Developments
– Non-importation of slaves (1808)
– Second Great Awakening
• Foreign Policy Developments
– Barbary Pirates/War (1801-1805)
– Chesapeake-Leopard Affair (1807)