APUSH
Election of 1800
John Adams BOO!
Federalist, Alien & Sedition Acts
New Navy = “John Adams Jackasses”
Huge Navy, no war with France
Thomas Jefferson & Aaron Burr
FLAWS = state legislature “chooses electors” not
popular vote
Jefferson & Burr tie at 73 electoral votes
The decision goes to the House of Representatives
12th Amendment = Electors choose a Pres & VPres
Jefferson Restraint:
Jefferson “Undoes” Federalist
Programs
Changes Alien & Sedition Acts =
Naturalization Law of 1802 (5 yr citizenship)
Repeal excise tax
Reduction of debt, balanced budget
Distrusted a large army
Reduction to 2500 men
Jefferson Restraint:
Jefferson “keeps” Federalist
Programs
Federalist Programs remain
Bank of the United States (BUS)
Tariffs
Funding state debts at par
The Dead Clutch of the Judiciary =
Marbury v. Madison 1803
John Adams begins to “court pack with
federalists”
Appoints Madison as Justice of D.C…..the letter
does not get delivered before TJ is Pres
Madison sues for delivery of the letter
Chief Justice John Marshall: “The Judiciary Act
of 1789 was unconstitutional…the court cannot
ENFORCE law, we can merely judge law” =
JUDICIAL REVIEW
TJ Angry = court overturns the nullification law!
Payback time….
Jefferson & Foreign Policy
Barbary Pirates
1801 Tripoli wants more bribery money
4 yrs long
Pays us $60,000
Mosquito Fleet
The Louisiana Godsend
Spain gives France Louisiana Territory 1800
US rights to port of New Orleans revoked!
Go to war with France?????
In 1803, Jefferson sent James Monroe to join regular
minister Robert R. Livingston to buy New Orleans
and as much land to the east for a total of $10 million,
tops! And the rights to the port of New Orleans.
Napoleon sells Louisiana Territory for a bargain of
$15 million.
They did not want a US/GB alliance
They abandoned their US dreams of a French empire
due to losing of the Napoleonic Wars
Jefferson = Two Faced
Strict constructionist
US Constitution does not allow for purchase of land
He lets it happen anyway…..
Louisiana in the Long
View
The purchase
created a precedent
of acquisition of
foreign territory
through purchase.
Lewis & Clark
Sacajawea
Aaron Burr!
Plots to secede NY & NE
Hamilton exposes him!
Hamilton & Burr “Duel”
Burr tries to secede the West
Many followers
PROBLEM! The US cannot effectively govern the
west!
America: A Nutcrackered
Neutral
War with GB & FR
British Orders in Council 1806
Shipping must stop in GB before France
6,000 Americans impressed
GB fires on the Chesapeake
US Embargo Act of 1807
No trading to foreign countries
Colonial Response: “That Dambargo!”
Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 (trade yes, GB/FR no)
That “Dambargo” was
pretty “Damgood”
US turned to building factories
President Madison 1809-1817
Non Intercourse Act = Macon’s Bill No. 2
Opens all trade
If we trade w/GB…we won’t trade w/Fr
Vice versa
Napoleon agrees (lies)
GB to trade w/US or we cannot trade at all!
Madison the idiot
War of 1812 - Causes
12th Congress = “War Hawks”
Want a GB war and expansion into Canada
Argument: GB is supplying Indians in the west
War of 1812
The Second War of
Independence
On to Canada to wipe out the Native American base
To protest against GB impressment
Purpose: to restore confidence in Republicanism
PROBLEM
Leads to sectionalism
New England shippers do not want war
Federalists did not want agricultural Canadian lands
(more slavery?)
US to fight Old England and New England
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