Washington's Foreign Policy and Farewell Address

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Washington’s Foreign Policy & Farewell Address

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A survey of the foreign policy challenges during George Washington's presidency, with special emphasis on the administration's response to the Wars of the French Revolution. This presentation also includes a graphic organizer to use while discussing Washington's Farewell Address. For more PowerPoint presentations and instructional materials, visit www.tomrichey.net!

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  • 1.WashingtonsForeignPolicy& Farewell Address

2. AMERICA: 1790 3. Our Revolutionwas Over. 4. Jacques-Louis David, The Tennis Court Oath 5. The Storming of the Bastille, 14 July 1789 6. The French TricolorThey wannabe us...But theyAINT us. 7. The French RevolutionHamiltonJeffersonUS Should SupportFrench RevolutionUS Should OpposeFrench Revolution 8. WAR!!!France vs. Europe 9. How should theUnited Statesrespond? 10. NeutralityProclamationWhereas it appears thata state of war existsbetween Austria,Prussia, Sardinia, GreatBritain, and the UnitedNetherlands, of the onepart, and France on theother...1793 11. NeutralityProclamationThe duty and interest ofthe United Statesrequire, that they shouldwith sincerity and goodfaith adopt and pursue aconduct friendly andimpartial toward thebelligerent Powers...1793 12. Washingtons NeutralityProclamation definedAmerican foreignpolicy toward Europeuntil World War II.The Legacy 13. Your boys arenot going to besent into anyforeign wars!-- FDR, 1940http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfSU-VGixjM 14. Art courtesy of Sam B. andJames J. (APUSH 2008-2009) 15. Citizen GenetFrench Ambassadorto theUnited States1793-1794Privateers: Republicaine Anti-George Sans-Culotte Citizen Gent 16. HamiltonJeffersonYoure right.He has to bedismissed.Citizen Genets lack of regardfor diplomatic protocol resultedin a rare agreement betweenJefferson and Hamilton. 17. Photo by Gage SkidmoreCitizen Genetwas FIRED. 18. Jefferson 19. Photo by Roger SmithJefferson, frustrated with theadministrations pro-Britishpolicies, retired to Monticello. 20. Britain agrees to abandonforts in U.S. in exchange forMost Favored Nation (MFN)trading status.The Jay TreatyJohn Jay1794-1796 21. The Jay Treatystrengthenedeconomic tieswith aristocraticBritain, whilecreating tensionbetween the U.S.and republicanFrance. 22. http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_urb-john-jay.html 23. Ratified 20-10** Treaties require a 2/3 vote ofthe Senate for ratification.Photo by Kurt Magoon 24. Settled West Florida Boundary Free navigation of the Mississippi R. Right of Deposit (New Orleans)Thomas Pinckney(SC)Pinckneys Treaty 1795 25. Map by Golbez 26. Map by GolbezFree Navigation 27. A precedentfor all futurepresidentsTwo Terms 28. EXCEPTONEOOPS! 29. Art courtesy of Sam B. andJames J. (APUSH 2008-2009) 30. TWO TERM PRECEDENTPhoto by rogerblake2The Twenty-secondAmendment (1951)made Washingtonsprecedent official. 31. Jeffersonian Ideas WASHINGTON Hamiltonian IdeasUNIONSectionalismPolitical PartiesExcessive DebtVirtue(Religion and Morality)Consolidation ofPowerNeutralityWashingtons Farewell Address