There were many problems faced by the new American
government. I will mention two that were very
important.
The first of these was a domestic problem. This
was getting the states to be happy in the new system where they had so much less power
than they had had under the Articles of Confederation. A crisis in this regard came in
the Whiskey Rebellion. This was an incident in which some people in a state rebelled
because they did not like being taxed by the national government. Washington had to
overcome these sorts of opinions to create a true
nation.
The second was a foreign policy problem. After the
French Revolution, France and Great Britain came into conflict with one another. The US
had to decide what stance to take with regard to this conflict. The conflict led to
dissension within the US and to dangerous decisions that had to be made so as not to
antagonize either France or Britain, both of which were much stronger than the infant
US.
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