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History, Launching the Nation: Federalists and Jeffersonians
George Washington was unanimously elected the first president of the United States in 1789. He presided over a revolutionary republic that was overwhelmingly rural. The country’s 4 million people filled the nation’s territory at only 1.7 per square km (4.5 per square mile; the comparable figure for 1998 was 29.5 per square km, or 76.4 per square mile).
deeper links ::
>> Americans and their Government, 1790–1815
>> The Debate over Federalism
>> Foreign Affairs, 1789–1812
>> The Threat of a Second War with Britain
>> The War of 1812
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