Across
- 3. Sent to Spain to work out a treaty to allow Americans to use the Mississippi River and the port of New Orleans
- 4. Washington’s 1st Secretary of State; opposed Hamilton’s economic plans including the tariff and the bank; helped found the Democratic-Republican Party, lost the election of 1796 to Adams and became the 2nd vice-president
- 7. Argued that the Constitution did not give the government power to create a bank; helped Jefferson found the Democratic-Republican Party
- 8. Washington’s 1st Secretary of the Treasury; came up with a plan to try and solve the nation’s economic problems in 1789, favored tariffs and a national bank; founder of the Federalist Party
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- 1. First President of the United States, taking office in 1789, supported Hamilton’s economic changes, tried to keep the U.S. out of foreign wars, served 2 terms in office, set many precedents that are still used by the government today
- 2. Selected as the nations 1st vice-president and elected the 2ndpresident in 1796; he received great criticism for the Alien and Sedition Acts, served one term as president
- 5. Washington’s Secretary of War, today we call this the Defense department
- 6. The 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, sent by Washington to England in 1794 to work out a treaty to resolve conflicts between Americans and British
- 9. Provided Washington with legal advice as the 1st Attorney General, today the Attorney General is the head of the Department of Justice