everyone basically knew that George Washington would be the first president because he had been Commander and Chief of the Continental Army, and was so well resptected. 

While Congress was busy establishing the bureaucracy of the government, the were also creating the Supreme Court

in the early years of the Republic, candidates for president and vice president ran on the same ticket just as they do now

while there was continued controversy about the constitutionality of the US Bank, this justice ruled that it was constitutional

John Adams got the US in a war against France because of their attacks on our shipping 

essentially, this individual was the author of the Compromise of 1850 and was speaker of the House

Reconstruction lasted from 1864 to 1877

the first chief justice of the Supreme Court

Andrew Johnson was impeached by Congress

Texas independence