President:
Pres: (Articles of Confederation) Cyrus Griffin
Pres: George Washington elected over John Adams, John Jay, Robert H. Harrison, and John Rutlege, also inaugurated
General
- Law: Bill of Rights proposed
Judiciary Act allows courts to issue mandates (Creates Supreme Court)
Attorney General created
- Politics: First Congress meets in New York
Vice President - John Adams, Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State, Hamilton as Treasury
US declares self economic and customs union
- Natives: Treaties with Wyandot and Six Nations Tribes
- Science: US total solar eclipse
East
- New York: First Congress meets
Tammany (Hall) founded as benevolent institution that soon becomes political
Samuel Slater comes to US with plans for textile mill - start of US industrial revolution
- Pennsylvania: Penn State University created from Philadelphia academy
South
- North Carolina: In the Union as 12th State