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American history is fading somewhat in the nation’s classrooms. This is dangerous because failing to understand your country can stimulate poor decision-making and personal failure. All of us should seek the truth. It is our mandate as a free people to do that.
George Washington is not exactly thrilled to lead the new nation. The seat of power is the office and residence Congress has rented at 1 Cherry Street in Manhattan.
This bickering “cabinet” of four politicians includes Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.
Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton is the man charged with fixing America’s debt problem.
In 1793, Thomas Jefferson abruptly resigns as secretary of state in protest over Washington’s refusal to aid the French cause.
After eight years as vice president, a job he calls “the most insignificant that ever the imagination of man contrived,” John Adams will be elected to replace him.
Adams believes slavery is antithetical to America’s promise of freedom.
John Adams spent his time before leaving office appointing Federalist judges to fill as many judicial openings as possible. These “midnight appointments” were intended to deprive the new president of power to appoint justices—and they will.
It is Jefferson and the young James Madison who form the new Democratic-Republican Party in the 1790s. The movement advocates less federal power over individuals and the states. Madison advocates for a system of checks and balances among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government to ensure that no group acquires more power than any other.
In 1820, he is reelected. He runs unopposed, the last time that will happen in American history.
As with his friend Thomas Jefferson and his political opponent John Adams, the date of President James Monroe’s death is July 4.
So, in a single campaign, Americans acquire keep the ball rolling and booze.
Millard Fillmore is the last Whig president. By 1856, the party will cease to exist, undone by the Compromise of 1850. From now on, every chief executive will be affiliated with either the Republican or Democratic Party.
