President Washington Retires

1797: Washington’s put the federal government on a sound basis and thereby kept the country together.  Before the Constitution was adopted the states were flying apart.  It was adopted but would it work in practice?  This is where Washington’s new role from President of the Constitutional Convention to President of the government came in.  The people were deeply ambivalent about both the Constitution and the federal government it created.  This was especially true in the south and in the west.  When he retired, attitudes had much improved; the federal government placed on a sound basis.

This was his greatest accomplishment.

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