Jefferson AdministrationMr. Pagliaro

Seymour High School

Revolution of 1800

• 1st transition between parties

“We are all Republicans, we We are all Republicans, we are all Federalistsare all Federalists. If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. ”

Jefferson’s Cabinet

• VP: Aaron Burr (NY)• Sec. of State: James Madison (VA)• Sec. of War: Henry Dearborn (NH)• Sec. of Treasury: Albert Galatin (NY)• Att. General: Levi Lincoln (MA)• Post Master General: Gideon Granger

(CT)• Sec. of Navy: Robert Smith (PA)

Judiciary Act of 1801

• Lame duck period• Passed 19 days before Adams left office

• 16 new federal positions• Packed federal courts with Federalists

Marbury V. Madison

• Marbury=midnight judge

• Sued Madison for appointment

• Chief Justice John Marshall• Declared Judiciary Act of

1789 unconsititional• Judicial Review

• Power of Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional

Jefferson Makes Changes

Succeeded in Succeeded in reducing reducing governmentgovernment

• Only customs duties, sale of lands produced revenue

• Eliminated excise tax

• Reduced size of executive staff

Succeeded in Succeeded in reducing size of reducing size of militarymilitary

• Smaller army and navy

• Built up navy, small gunboats for pirate attacks

Louisiana Purchase

• General Napoleon Bonaparte wanted a French empire.• 1800-Spain returned

Louisiana to France.• American Ambassadors sent

to secure use or buy New Orleans ($10 mil)

• Haitian Revolution• Napoleon offered Louisiana

Territory for $15 mil-more than doubled Size of US

Louisiana Purchase

Lewis & Clark

Lewis & Clark

• 1804-1806-Corps of Discovery• Map route to Pacific

• 1st across Continental Divide

• Scientific study• Catalog of weather,

flora, fauna

• Contact Native Americans re: peace/trade

• Sacajawea

Domestic Issues

• Hamilton/Burr Duel-July 11, 1804• Weehawken, NJ

Burr Conspiracy (1806-1807)

• Remove Louisiana territory from US• Begin a new empire

• Involved:• Former VP Burr• Head of the US Army,

James Wilkinson

Barbary War/Tripolitan War

• 1801-1805• Tripoli

demanded tribute-led to war

• 8 Marines, mercenaries took control of Tripoli

British continue attacks on American Shipping

•Impressments•Ignored in Jay’s Treaty

•1806-Monroe-Pinkney Treaty•Goal: end impressments, renew Jay’s

Treaty•British did not agree on

impressments•Never ratified

Chesapeake Incident-1807

Commanders and leaders

Salisbury Pryce Humphreys

   Commodore James Barron.

Strength

1 4th rate 1 frigate

Casualties and losses

none 1 frigate damaged3 KIA18 WIA4 arrested

The affair of the Chesapeake put war into my hand, I had

only to open it and let havoc loose

Embargo Act, 1807

• No trade; avoid problems• Hurt sailors,

dockworkers, farmers• No trade=no $ for

these groups

• Smuggling

Election of 1808

Candidate Party % Pop. Vote

Electoral

Votes

Madison DR 64.7 122

Pickney F 32.4 47

Clinton DR <1% 6

Non-Intercourse Act, 1808

• No trade with Great Britain or France

Henry Letters

• Fraudulent letters sold to Madison• Britain trying to get N.E. to join Canada?

• Increased tension

Macon’s Bill #2-1810

• Began trade with France OR GB if they stopped attacking our ships

• Rejected other nation• France accepted

• Didn’t comply

• No trade w/ GB continued

War HawksWar Hawks

• 1811-12th congress• Young Republican

Congressmen from West/South• Anti-British

• Impressments• Nationalists

• Henry Clay-Speaker of the House, KY• John C. Calhoun, SC• Richard Mentor Johnson, KY• William Lowndes, SC• Langdon Cheves, SC• Felix Grundy, TN• William W. Bibb, GA

War Hawks Goals

1. Stop impressments2. Demonstrate American power3. Seize Canada4. Take Florida from Spain5. End British aid to Native Americans

The War of 1812

• 1811-British Blockaded American ports

• 1812-Declaration of War, USS Constitution, Canadian Invasion, loss of Detroit

• 1813-Battle of Lake Erie, Oliver Hazard Perry, Detroit regained

• 1814-Battle of Baltimore, White House & Capitol razed, Treaty of Ghent

• 1815-Battle of New Orleans

Ending the War

• Treaty of Ghent• Treaty restored

relations to status quo ante bellum 

• American Ambassadors• John Quincy Adams

• Albert Gallatin• James Bayard• Jonathan Russell • Henry Clay

• Rush-Bagot Treaty-1817• Demilitarized Great

Lakes

Tecumseh’s War

• 1809-Treaty of Ft. Wayne• 3 mil. acres of Indiana

land given to US

• Prophet: Tenskwatawa• 1810-Tecumseh

demands William Henry Harrison take back treaty

In defiance of the white warriors of Ohio and

Kentucky, I have traveled through their settlements, once our favorite hunting

grounds. No war-whoop was sounded, but there is blood

on our knives. The Pale-faces felt the blow, but knew

not whence it came.-Tecumseh, 1811

Tecumseh’s War• 1811-Battle of

Tippecanoe• Harrison def.

Tenskwatawa

• 1812-Tecumseh allied w/ British• Aided capture of Ft.

Detroit

• 1813-Invasion of Canada• Battle of Thames

• Wm. H. Harrison’s forces def. Brits/Indians

• Tecumseh killed

Economic Policy

• 1811-Madison let Bank of US charter expire

• 1814-Congress passed new bank, Madison vetoes

• 1815-Madison requested new bank• 1816-The BUS emerged w/ 20 year

charter