Chloe Bradley 6/5/17 Mrs. Bruce Period 3 Since the founding of this country, American Presidents have been pressured to make policy based on foreign influence. The factors of U.S. foreign policy have included not only protecting our borders, but also promoting world peace. These goals have compelled the U.S. presidents to make some crucial decisions and expand policy from Washington’s isolationism and Teddy Roosevelt's “Big Stick Policy”, to Trump's current protectionism. The United States entanglement in Washington's isolationism, the Truman doctrine, and the Bush era of Interventionism were not without repercussion and have had an impact of our current president's policy issues and will fashion our future
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While the current cabinet of the United States has 16 members, George Washington's cabinet had only four key members; Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox, and General Edmund Randolph. Thomas Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State (March 22, 1790 - December 31, 1793). In November 1789 Jefferson returned to the United States from France to be appointed Secretary of State, almost as quickly as he returned problems with Alexander Hamilton’s plan for funding the Bank of the United States occurred and he resigned from the cabinet to soon be a leader of the Democratic-Republican party continuing on to become vice president in 1796, and president in 1801. Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), Washington’s former aide, was appointed the position of Secretary of the Treasury; during his time Hamilton proposed funding national and state debts through government bonds and protective tariffs. In 1796, Hamilton left the state treasury but continued to work with washington up until his death in 1799. Henry Knox (1750-1806) was George Washington’s secretary of war. In 1772 Knox volunteered to be part of the Boston Grenadier Corps, and was also involved in many other things such as The Sons of Liberty. After Henry’s successful battle at Bunker Hill, George Washington has become accustomed to him and decided to promote him to secretary of war. Whereas his father reacted to the American Revolution by returning to Great Britain, Edmund Randolph served as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington in 1775 before becoming the very first Attorney General and then secretary of state until he resigned in 1795, Randolph was tasked with defining the country’s justice
While the current cabinet of the United States has 16 members, George Washington's cabinet had only four key members; Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox, and General Edmund Randolph. Thomas Jefferson was Washington's Secretary of State (March 22, 1790 - December 31, 1793). In November 1789 Jefferson returned to the United States from France to be appointed Secretary of State, almost as quickly as he returned problems with Alexander Hamilton’s plan for funding the Bank of the United States occurred and he resigned from the cabinet to soon be a leader of the Democratic-Republican party continuing on to become vice president in 1796, and president in 1801. Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), Washington’s former aide, was appointed the position of Secretary of the Treasury; during his time Hamilton proposed funding national and state debts through government bonds and protective tariffs. In 1796, Hamilton left the state treasury but continued to work with washington up until his death in 1799. Henry Knox (1750-1806) was George Washington’s secretary of war. In 1772 Knox volunteered to be part of the Boston Grenadier Corps, and was also involved in many other things such as The Sons of Liberty. After Henry’s successful battle at Bunker Hill, George Washington has become accustomed to him and decided to promote him to secretary of war. Whereas his father reacted to the American Revolution by returning to Great Britain, Edmund Randolph served as an aide-de-camp to General George Washington in 1775 before becoming the very first Attorney General and then secretary of state until he resigned in 1795, Randolph was tasked with defining the country’s justice