What are some of Washington's major accomplishments?
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He kept the ragged Continental army together. He avoided a direct encounter with the superior British army. He never had enough men or supplies. This was up until Yorktown.\nHe later presided over the Constitutional Convention. He knew enough to let others who understood finances and government much better than he do their work. By the force of his personality he kept antagonists like Jefferson & Hamilton at bay.
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George Washington...thanks for the extra points!
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1: George Washington\n2:John Adams\n3:Thomas Jefferson\n4:James Madison\n5:James Monroe
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Well, if I'm getting your jist correctly, one of the people left out of the signing was George Washington. he didn't sign because he wasn't sure if he wanted to give the American people the idea that he wanted get into Foriegn affairs...or something to that effect. I'm sure someone else can explain it better.
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Condi Rice. That woman is a genius. If you read her biography, it's staggering ...the list of accomplishments are amazing.
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Washington\nPacific \nCascades\nCanada
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Immigration\nGay Marriage\nWar in Iraq\nAbortion\n\nJust to name a few...
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The First President of the United States of America was George Washington.
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Washington hands down.  Without him there would be no other Americans.  He made a America what it is today with his decisions.
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The first President of the U.S. was George Washington.
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Accomplishments as president:\n\n    *\n\n      Attacked and took over two countries.\n    *\n\n      Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.\n    *\n\n      Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.\n    *\n\n      Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.\n    *\n\n      Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.\n    *\n\n      First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.\n    *\n\n      First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.\n    *\n\n      First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.\n    *\n\n      In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.\n    *\n\n      Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12 month period.\n    *\n\n      Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.\n    *\n\n      Signed more laws and executive orders circumventing the Constitution than any president in US history.\n    *\n\n      Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.\n    *\n\n      Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.\n    *\n\n      Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.\n    *\n\n      Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. HE HAS TO BE THE WORST PRSIDENT EVER IN OUR HISTORY, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT HIM?? I CAN CAN YOU MORE FACTS!!!
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I assumed you were talking about George Washington...\n\nAfter retiring from the presidency in March 1797, Washington returned to Mount Vernon with a profound sense of relief. He established a distillery there and became probably the largest distiller of whiskey in the nation at the time, producing 11,000 gallons of whiskey and a profit of $7,500 in 1798.\n\nDuring that year, Washington was appointed Lieutenant General in the United States Army (then the highest possible rank) by President John Adams. Washington's appointment was to serve as a warning to France, with which war seemed imminent. While Washington never saw active service, upon his death one year later, the U.S. Army rolls listed him as a retired Lieutenant General, which was then considered the equivalent to his rank as General and Commander in Chief during the Revolutionary War.\n\nWithin a year of this 1798 appointment, Washington fell ill from a bad cold with a fever and a sore throat that turned into acute laryngitis and pneumonia and died on December 14, 1799, at his home. Modern doctors believe that Washington died from either a streptococcal infection of the throat or, since he was bled as part of the treatment, a combination of shock from the loss of blood, asphyxia, and dehydration. One of the physicians who administered bloodletting to him was Dr. James Craik, one of Washington's closest friends, who had been with Washington at Fort Necessity, the Braddock expedition, and throughout the Revolutionary War. Washington's remains were buried at Mount Vernon.\n\nFollow the link for more information.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_washington
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Washington was the better president simply because he was the first. He had no example of how he should act or conduct business. While Lincon had to deal with a split country, Washington had to run a absolutly new country that could of fallen apart at any second.
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On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States.\n\nGeorge Washington is often called "the father of his country" for his crucial role in fighting for, creating and leading the United States of America in its earliest days. Washington was a surveyor, farmer and soldier who rose to command the colonial forces in the Revolutionary War. His success in the war made him a tremendously popular figure in America even after he retired to his farm at Mount Vernon in 1783. He was the natural choice to serve as the country's first president in 1789 after the new United States Constitution was ratified. He served two terms, refused a third, and returned to his Virginia farm. In 1798 he was again commissioned as commander in chief of the army, a title he held until his death 18 months later. He was succeeded as president by John Adams.\n\nMore info in the links, if you need it!
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gw1.html\n\nthis is a site about george himself.\ngood luck
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Back then, water travel was the normal thing.  So Washington fought lots of battles on rivers.  The most famous was the Battle of Trenton, when Washington snuck his troops across the Delaware River from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, and surprised the Hessian troops in Trenton.  They were half-drunk from Christmas celebrations.  There is a famous painting called "Washington Crossing the Delaware."\n\nAnother big battle on a river was the battle of Washington Heights (NY).  Early in the Revolution, the British nearly captured both Washington and mot of his army in a battle in New York City. Washington managed to escape.\n\nThere are lots of others.
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About Mount Vernon: \nThe 500-acre estate of George Washington and his family is located in Mount Vernon, Virginia along the shores of the Potomac River and is the most scenic tourist attraction in the Washington, DC area. The 14-room mansion is beautifully restored and furnished with original objects dating back to the 1740's. You may tour the outbuildings, including the kitchen, slave quarters, smokehouse, coach house and stables. \n\nA tour of the Mount Vernon estate takes about 2 hours. George Washington planned the landscape himself to include four gardens that showcase the plants that were at Mount Vernon in the late 1700s. There’s also a pioneer farm site, a hands-on exhibit with a 16-sided treading barn. \n\nYou can visit George Washington’s Tomb. Washington died in the master bedroom at Mount Vernon on December 14, 1799. He chose to be buried on the grounds of the estate. The tomb was completed in 1831 and Washington's body was moved there along with the remains of his wife, Martha, and other family members. Near the tomb is a slave burial ground, to honor African-American slaves who worked at Mount Vernon.