EARLY CHALLENGES

VOCAB

• Neutrality
• Not taking sides
• Impressment
• The act of impressing people into service

MORE VOCAB

• Challenge
• Demanding situation
• Maintain
• To keep

PEOPLE AND EVENTS TO LOOK FOR

• Whiskey Rebellion
• An armed protest due to the tax on whiskey.
• Battle of Fallen Timbers
• The battle in which Washington's army defeated
• over 1000 Native Americans.

MORE PEOPLE AND EVENTS

• Treaty of Greenville
• The Natives agreed to give up most of
• present day Ohio.
• Edmond Genêt
• French diplomat sent to recruit American soldiers.

EVEN MORE TO NOTE

• Jay's Treaty
• The treaty from when John Jay negotiated with the British.
• Pinckney's Treaty
• The Treaty that gave the Americans free navigation of the
• Mississippi River.

THE WHISKEY REBELLION

• Pennsylvania farmers were resisting their
• tax on whiskey.
• Their protest became violent, and a mob attacked
• tax collectors and burned down buildings.

FAIR OR NOT FAIR?

STRUGGLES OVER THE WEST

• The new government faced troubles in the west.
• Washington was scared about the European ambitions
• in the northwest territory.
• He also signed treaties with the natives and British.
• American settlers ignored the treaties.

STRUGGLES (CONTINUED)

• A fight broke out between the Americans
• and Native Americans.
• The British government wanted the settlements
• west of the Appalachians to be destroyed.
• Washington sent an army to restore order. They defeated the Native Americans.

PROBLEMS WITH EUROPE

• The French Revolution was very bloody.
• Washington hoped that the U.S.could remain its neutrality.

WASHINGTON PROCLAIMS NEUTRALITY

• The French wanted the U.S. to take their side
• to help them resolve their conflict with Britain.
• Washington prohibited citizens from fighting.
• John Jay was sent to solve this problem with Britain.
• Few Americans approved of Jay's Treaty.

TREATY WITH SPAIN

• Spain feared that the U.S. And the U.K.
• would work together against them.
• Thomas Pinckney was sent to solve this
• problem. His treaty was Pinckney's Treaty.

WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL

• The president did not seek a 3rd term.
• Washington attacked the political parties.
• These words influenced the nations foreign policy.