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Chapter 9-2
Challenges to the New Government
Section Objectives
 To explain why Washington wanted to secure the Trans-Appalachian west
 To analyze the causes and outcome of the Battle of Fallen Timbers
 To identify the reasons for the Whiskey Rebellion
 To explain how Washington maintained US neutrality
Securing the Northwest Territory
1. Why was there conflict over the West?
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Spain held much of the land West of Mississippi and port of New Orleans.
Spanish threatened to close ports. Spanish also stirred up trouble with
settlers and Native Americans.
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Native American resistance in Northwest Territory
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Britain still help onto forts north of Ohio River, and supported the Native
Americans
2. How did the Battle of Fallen Timbers affect Native American claims to land?

Crushed their hopes of keeping their land in the Northwest Territory. They
had to surrender much of present-day Ohio and Indiana.
3. Why was Washington’s treatment of the Whiskey Rebellion important?

He had shown that the government had the power and the will to enforce its
laws.
Battle of Fallen Timers
4. Why did Washington decide to send troops to the Ohio Valley to fight the force
led by Little Turtle?
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He believed the Northwest Territory was critical to the security and growth
of a new nation.
5. What were the results of the Battle of Fallen Timbers for the Native Americans?
For the United States?
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Native Americans defeated
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US forced Native Americans to sign the Treaty of Greenville, surrendering
Ohio and Indiana.
6. Why did the British refuse to help the Native Americans?
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They did not want war with the United States.
The Whiskey Rebellion
7. Why were the farmers angry about the whiskey tax?
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They were angry because they used the whiskey to trade, and did not have
the money to buy goods in many cases, let alone pay taxes.
8. Why did Washington decide to crush the rebellion and enforce the tax?
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He feared that not to act was to undermine the new government and weaken
it’s authority.
The French Revolution/Remaining Neutral
9. Why did the war between France and Britain put the United States in a difficult
position?
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France had been our ally in the American Revolution, but Britain was our
biggest trading partner.
10. How did Jefferson, Hamilton, and Washington think the United States should
react to the War?

Jefferson – Felt that a move to crush the revolution was an attack on liberty
everywhere.
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Hamilton – Pointed out that Britain as the US’s most important trading
partner, and British trade was too important to risk war.
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Washington – Declared that the US would remain neutral
11. What problems did Jay’s Treaty and Pickney’s Treaty solve for the United States?
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Jay’s Treaty – Forced the British to pay for damages to seized US vessels,
and for the British to leave the Ohio Valley
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Pinckney’s Treaty – Gave US the right to travel freely on the Mississippi
river, and to store goods at the port of New Orleans without paying customs
duties.