George Washington's Challenges

On July 4, 1776 colonists became Americans, they celebrate their independence after separating from Britain. The first president was George Washington who was a popular man amongst the colonies. He and John Adams, the second president had faced many internal and external challenges along with more recent presidents of the United States.

George Washington was the first president of the United States. Washington during the year of 1789 in April had moved from Virginia to the nation’s capital New York City to start his new term as president. Crowds had taken over the streets and newspapers reported the American war hero. Washington’s inauguration was April 30, 1789. (Davidson, “crowds had taken over” pg.2013) Much of what he had done has set a

Over time they became known as the Cabinet. By doing this he solved an internal challenge of who would have specific responsibili-ties and handle certain problems. (Davidson, 2013) Later, during his term in 1791 George Washington had shown how he handled the internal challenge. Many backcountry farmers had made extra money from turning the corn they grew into whiskey. So, when a tax was put on whiskey they had disliked the idea. Farmers began to compare the taxes to the hated taxes Brit-ain had brought upon the colonies before the Revolution. When west Pennsylvania officials at-tempted to collect tax in 1794 farmers rebelled by burning down a home of a tax collectors. The violent protest became known as the Whiskey Rebellion. (Davidson, “violent protest” pg287, 2013) Washington had quickly responded to this challenge by sending 13,000 troops. After hearing this, rebels had scattered fiercely. This incident had tested the will of the new govern-ment. In the year of 1790 the United States had bought most Native American land in Kentucky and in parts of Tennessee. The Native

Kennedy have also dealt with situations in the United States and outside the U.S. Kennedy was elected in 1960. The 43-year-old was the 35th Presi-dent. He was also the youngest man and first Roman Catholic Church to become President. Dur-ing his presidency, the Cuban Missile Crisis had taken place. This had happened in the year of 1961 in the month of April. (History.com Staff and A+E Networks "John F. Kennedy" 2009) President Kennedy was going to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs by trading Cuban exiles, yet they had lost. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev thought to place nuclear missiles in Cuba to stop attacks like the U.S. Jupiter missiles that were in Turkey in Italy, also wanting the native con-trol West Berlin. He even planned to bargain for this the missiles were shipped in secret to Cuba while construction began. (John D. Ruddy "Cuban Missile Crisis in 5 Minutes" 2014) On Octo-ber fourteenth and American aircraft had spotted the missiles in Cuba, which led to the CIA in-forming the President the next morning in Washington D.C. (John D. Ruddy "Cuban Missile Crisis in 5 Minutes" 2014) The medium range ballistic missiles would be able to launch as far as D.C., while the long-range missiles could reach almost contagious United States. President Kennedy had many choices to decide on, at the time the Joint Chiefs of staff liked the idea of a full attack