Election of 1796
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• Went after the vote of the Immigrants
• The man who receives the most electoral votes-President
• 2nd most-VP
Can these 2 work together?
First one in the White House
• Not finished
Alien and Sedition Acts
• Alien Acts
• Naturalization
• 14 Years
• Can deport any “dangerous“ alien
• Sedition Acts
• A person cannot say anything bad about the government , President or
Constitution without facing fines and/or imprisonment
What is wrong with this picture?
• Jefferson
• Kentucky Resolution
• Madison• Virginia Resolution
• Supreme court upheld it!
• Verbal violence of the day
French relations are going bad!
• Citizen Genet had aggravated a bad situation
• French privateers began seizing American ships
• French foreign minister, Charles Maurice Talleyrand, refused to receive Charles
Pinckney, the new U.S. minister to France
• (All of this was at the end of Washington’s 2nd administration)
We need to get out of this treaty!
• Franco-American Alliance
• John Marshall, Pinckney & Elbridge Gerry
• Put off by Talleyrand
XYZ Affair
• America wants war!
• Adams does not!
• Went back to France
• Talleyrand is not in charge anymore
• Napoleon!
• Convention of 1800
• Treaty of Mortefontaine
• Formally released the United States from the alliance
Election of 1800
What a mess!
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Lame duck ?
• November
• Chosen as president
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• Inaugurated
• March 4
• Nov-March
• Lame duck period
Midnight appointments
• Federalists
• Executive branch
• Legislative branch
• Only one left is Judicial branch!
Revolution of 1800
• Our government works!
• Passed from one extreme of government to the other extreme.
Let’s fix this!
• 12th Amendment
• When you vote for Obama, you get Biden!
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11th Amendment
• Civil trials in states
Jefferson
More casual than the other presidents
Asked people over to eat.
First to occupy Washington D.C. (Capital City)
First things first!
Excise tax is history
Martyrs of Sedition are pardoned
USA in 1800