The Method of Government During the Revolution--Impending Anarchy--The State Boundaries--State Cessions of Land--Shays' Rebellion--Adoption of the Constitution--Its Leading Features--The Ordinance of 1787--Formation of Parties--Election of the First President and Vice-President 143 CHAPTER VIII. ADMINISTRATIONS OF WASHINGTON, JOHN ADAMS, AND JEFFERSON--1789-1809. Washington--His Inauguration as First President of the United States--Alexander Hamilton--His Success at the Head of the Treasury Department--The Obduracy of Rhode Island--Establishment of the United States Bank--Passage of a Tariff Bill--Establishment of a Mint--The Plan of a Federal Judiciary--Admission of Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee--Benjamin Franklin--Troubles with the Western Indians--Their Defeat by General Wayne--Removal of the National Capital Provided for--The Whiskey Insurrection--The Course of "Citizen Genet"--Jay's Treaty--Re-election of Washington--Resignation of Jefferson and Hamilton--Washington's Farewell Address--Establishment of the United States Military Academy at West Point--The Presidential Election of 1796--John Adams--Prosperity of the Country--Population of the Country in 1790--Invention of the Cotton Gin--Troubles with France--War on the Ocean--Washington Appointed Commander-in-Chief--Peace Secured--The Alien and Sedition Laws--The Census of 1800--The Presidential Election of 1800--The Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution--Thomas Jefferson--Admission of Ohio--The Indiana Territory--The Purchase of Louisiana--Its Immense Area--Abolishment of the Slave Trade--War with Tripoli--The Lewis and Clark Expedition --Alexander Hamilton Killed in a Duel by Aaron Burr--The First Steamboat on the Hudson--The First Steamer to Cross the Atlantic--England's Oppressive Course Toward the United States--Outrage by the British Ship _Leander_--The Affair of the _Leopard_ and _Chesapeake_--Passage of the Embargo Act--The Presidential Election of 1808 153 CHAPTER IX. ADMINISTRATIONS OF MADISON, 1809-1817. THE WAR OF 1812.