The New Nation begins to expand
• 1803 - Louisiana Purchase
• 1816 – Florida is
purchased from the
Spanish
• 1817 – Mississippi
becomes a state
• 1818 – Illinois is added
• 1819 – Alabama becomes
a state
• 1820 – Maine is added
(Missouri Compromise)
By 1820, the nation expanded to over 3x the size of the
original 13 colonies. “Manifest Destiny” begins, yet
term isn’t coined till later years.
Immigration
• Naturalization Act (1802) - requirements for
immigrants wanting citizenship
The Burr Conspiracy (1804)
“Oh Burr, oh Burr, what has thou done,
Thou hast shooted dead great Hamilton!
You hid behind a bunch of thistle,
You shooted him dead with a great boss pistol!”
(Poem on a note dropped on the doorstep of Aaron Burr on the
morning of July 11, 1804, after he killed Alexander Hamilton)
• Aaron Burr Jr. – 3rd vice
president of the United States
(Under Jefferson)
• Accused as treasonous; claimed
to have been plotting to create
an independent nation (with
Louisiana Purchase Territory,
the Southwest, and part of
Mexico)
• Challenges Alexander Hamilton
to a duel July 11, 1804;
Hamilton shot and killed
• Federalist Party weakened by
Hamilton’s death
Embargo of 1807
• Law forbid the export of all goods
from the United States
• President Jefferson
• Attempt to prevent involvement
in Napoleonic Wars
• Response to British impressments
of American sailors &
Chesapeake- Leopard Affair
• Prevented ships from leaving US
ports (Hindered exploration)
• Led to economic depression –
unpopular and repealed in 1809
• Replaced by Non-Intercourse Act;
free trade with any country that’s
not Britain or France
Jefferson’s Presidency (1801 – 1809)
Missouri Compromise (1820)
Compromise Standards
Purpose and significance
• Line established (36’30” Parallel)
separating free and slave states
• “Mason – Dixon Line”
• Maine enters the nation as a free
state, Missouri enters as a slave
state
• Tension persists between slave
states and free states, looking
to have equal, if not more
representation in house and
senate
• Ends first crisis concerning
slavery, yet brings about many
more issues in later years
• Line “slices” the nation into 2
pieces, and seemingly 2
different nations
The War of 1812 (Anglo-American War)
Chronology of important events
The War
• 1811 – Battle of Tippecanoe.
Battle that got future
president William Henry
Harrison fame.
• Dec 24, 1814 – Treaty of Ghent
signed, intended to end war.
• Jan 18, 1815 – The Battle of
New Orleans. This was the last
battle of the war of 1812
• War was waged between the
United States and Great
Britain, as well as British North
America (Canada)
• British efforts to halt US trade
with France
• Stop impressments of sailors
• Primarily fought in the Atlantic
Ocean and on the land, coasts
and waterways of North
America
Early 19th Century Lifestyle
• Primarily revolved around agriculture, yet due to
the failure of the embargo, independent
manufacturing of goods increased in the United
States
• Farm life was difficult, lacking modern equipment
and tools
• People who could afford it paid for servants, as
well as slaves from the slave exchange
• Gas lighting was invented, revolutionary to life at
home
Slavery
• 1808 - importation became prohibited, yet
exchange persisted
• Tension between states with and without slavery
• Slaves deemed property, with no rights
whatsoever
Works Cited
• http://americanhistory.about.com/od/thomasjefferson/p/pjef
ferson.htm
• http://www.merrycoz.org/timeline.htm
• http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/19thcentury1800.htm
• http://www.cyberessays.com/history/154.htm
• http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0833427.html
• http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090123215
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