thmas jefferson: a time of conflict
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A Time of Conflict
The Challenges of
Thomas Jefferson’s Presidency
The Election of 1804
• Jefferson chooses
new VP: replaces
Aaron Burr
• Committed to staying
neutral in foreign
policy
• Jefferson wins easily• Burr leaves Republican party
Burr attempts to stay in politics
• Runs for governor of New York
• Hamilton campaigns against him
Fight for Honor
• Burr
challenges
Hamilton to a
duel to the
death
The duel
• July 11, 1804
• Heights of
Weehawken,
NJ
• Burr shoots
Hamilton in
lower
abdomen
Consequences
• Hamilton dies the next day
• Burr becomes a political
outcast
• Tried for treason & murder
• Acquitted and leaves the
country
SS is Everywhere!
Challenge #1
• Trade with Britain and France critical to US economy
• We sold crops and resources to Europe, purchased manufactured goods
• Trade being threatened by PIRATES!
Pirates!
• Attacks on
American ships
in the
Mediterranean
Sea
The Barbary States
• Attacks come
from North
African coast:
• Morocco
• Algiers
• Tunisia
• Tripoli
Why were they attacking?
• Took property
• Enslaved sailors to
hold for ransom
• Wanted America to
pay tribute
Vocabulary:
• Tribute: money paid by one country to another in return for protection
What should we do?
• Jefferson would
not pay tribute
• Warships to
Med. Sea to
protect our ships
The Philadelphia
• Ran aground on
Tripoli coast
• Crew imprisoned
• Americans raided
the harbor and
burned the ship to
keep it out of pirate
hands
Send in Marines!
• 600 sent to capture Tripoli
• “to the shores of Tripoli” still part of Marine anthem
• Inspired confidence in our ability to deal with foreign nations that threatened America
Challenge #2 U.S. Neutrality
• Britain and France
both wanted us to
choose sides
• We wanted to keep
trading with both
How to win the war….
• France and
Britain looking to
hurt one another
• Cut off foreign
trade
How was America involved?
• Britain warships
began to seize
American ships
trading with France
• French warships
began to seize
American ships
trading with Britain
Impressment
• Britain needed sailors for its war against the French• American soldiers were impressed: Forced to serve
in the British navy
What to do?• Jefferson looks for a peaceful way to stop
impressments and the seizing of American ships
Challenge # 3 Embargo
• Embargo: government order that forbids foreign trade
• Embargo Act of 1807: forbid American ships from sailing to foreign ports
OOPS!
• Exports fall from
$109 to $25 million
• Hurt American
farmers and
planters
• Outrage!
In New England…
• Merchants
depended on trade
• Resort to
Smuggling: illegally
importing/exporting
Repealed
• Congress repealed Embargo Act
• President James Madison later passed a new law the forbade trade with Britain and France only
Challenge #4: Native Americans
• Settlers move
west into new
territory
• Indians pushed
even farther
west
Jefferson retires
• Steps down after
two terms
• Did not want to be
remembered for
his presidency
• James Madison
(Republican) wins
Election of 1808
Tecumseh
• Organized western tribes to restore Indian lands
• Britain supplied with weapons
• Traveled and the message spread
Battle of Tippecanoe
• William Henry
Harrison (governor of
Indiana)
• Defeated the Native
Americans
• Tension remain high
between Natives and
settlers, and between
Americans and British
What are we left with?
• Huge tension between America and Britain
• Why? They are…– Attacking ships– Impressing soldiers– Supply Native
Americans with weapons
– Affecting ability to trade