THE JEFFERSON ERA CHAPTER 10

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1 THE JEFFERSON ERA CHAPTER 10

2 ELECTION OF 1800 FEDERALISTS- JOHN ADAMS DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS- JEFFERSON JEFFERSON ARGUED THAT GOVERNMENT WAS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL (EX: ALIEN SEDITION ACTS) FEDERALISTS ARGUED THAT THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS WERE RADICALS WHO WOULD DESTROY THE COUNTRY

3 JEFFERSON 73 ELECTORAL VOTES, ADAMS 65, AARON BURR 73 VOTES (TIE!!!!!!!)

4 TIEBREAKER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HAD TO BREAK THE TIE BUT FEDERALISTS CONTROLLED IT AND WERE GOING TO DECIDE THE WINNER BETWEEN A FEDERALIST (ADAMS) AND 2 DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS (JEFFERSON AND BURR) IT TOOK 36 VOTES, AND JEFFERSON BECAME PRESIDENT AND BURR VP

5 JEFFERSON AS PRESIDENT WANTED LIMITED GOVERNMENT, COUNTRY TO STAY MOSTLY FARMERS, AND HANG ON TO ITS CORE VALUES REDUCED NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES AND SIZE OF MILITARY, LOWERED TAXES, AND ENDED THE ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS REDUCED THE COUNTRY S DEBT

6 JUDICIARY ACT 1801 PRESIDENT ADAMS APPOINTED AS MANY FEDERALIST JUDGES TO THE SUPREME COURT AS POSSIBLE BEFORE HE LEFT OFFICE THIS KEPT THE JUDICIAL BRANCH CONTROLLED BY FEDERALISTS (OTHER BRANCHES CONTROLLED BY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICANS)

7 MARBURY VS MADISON SUPREME COURT CREATED CONCEPT OF JUDICIAL REVIEW COURT WOULD BE FINAL SAY ON THE MEANING OF THE CONSTITUTION

8 NEW STATES KENTUCKY AND TENNESSEE BECAME STATES IN 1800 OHIO BECAME A STATE IN 1803

9 LOUISIANA PURCHASE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS WAS CONTROLLED BY SPANISH, THEN THE FRENCH FRENCH WANTED TO CLOSE THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS TO AMERICANS WHICH BROUGHT USA ON VERGE OF WAR WITH FRANCE JEFFERSON OFFERED TO BUY NEW ORLEANS AND FRANCE RESPONDED BY OFFERING THE ENTIRE LOUISIANA TERRITORY FOR SALE (MISSISSIPPI RIVER TO ROCKY MOUNTAINS)

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11 NOTHING IN CONSTITUTION SAID THE PRESIDENT COULD PURCHASE LAND 1803, USA PURCHASED THE ENTIRE LOUISIANA TERRITORY FOR $15 MILLION (3 CENTS/ACRE) THIS PURCHASE DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE USA

12 LEWIS AND CLARK EXPLORED THE AMERICAN WEST BEGINNING IN 1803 AFTER THE LA PURCHASE AIDED BY A NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN, SACAGAWEA HELPED TRANSLATE WITH NATIVE AMERICANS THEY CAME ACROSS ALSO HELPED THE NATIVE AMERICANS BELIEVE THEY CAME IN PEACE

13 DOCUMENTED THE PEOPLE, ANIMALS, PLANTS, ETC THAT THEY SAW AND CREATED MAPS OF THE NEW TERRITORY

14 ZEBULON PIKE LED A SOUTHERN EXPLORATION OF LA TERRITORY NOT AS ACCURATE AS THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION

15 ROAD TO WAR ENGLAND AND FRANCE WERE AT WAR WITH EACH OTHER BEGINNING IN 1803 BOTH COUNTRIES SEIZED AMERICAN SHIPS HEADED TO THEIR ENEMY BRITISH NAVY NEEDED SAILORS SO BADLY THAT THEY USED IMPRESSMENT (KIDNAPPED US SAILORS AND FORCED THEM INTO THE BRITISH NAVY)

16 EMBARGO ACT OF 1807 BANNED US SHIPS FROM TRADING IN FOREIGN PORTS STARTED TO DESTROY THE AMERICAN ECONOMY

17 NATIVE AMERICAN TROUBLES TECUMSEH WANTED TO UNITE THE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES TO STOP THE AMERICANS FROM STEALING THEIR LANDS WILLIAMS HENRY HARRISON, GOVERNOR OF INDIANNA TERRITORY SIGNED DEAL WITH SOME OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS TO BUY 3 MILLION ACRES OF LAND TECUMSEH DIDN T FOLLOW THIS, SAYING ALL THE TRIBES HAD TO AGREE FOR THIS TO HAPPEN

18 WAR OF 1812 WAR HAWKS-PEOPLE WHO CALLED FOR WAR WITH BRITISH CONGRESS DECLARED WAR ON BRITISH JUNE 1812 FROM THE BRITISH JUST SENT SHIPS TO BLOCK AMERICAN SHIPS AND HURT AMERICAN TRADE (BRITISH WERE FIGHTING FRENCH AT THE TIME) AMERICAN ARMY AND NAVY WERE SMALL AND UNPREPARED FOR WAR DUE THE CUTS MADE BY JEFFERSON

19 BATTLE OF LAKE ERIE NAVY BATTLE AMERICANS LED BY OLIVER HAZARD PERRY DURING BATTLE, PERRY SHIP WAS DESTROYED, HE ROWED TO ANOTHER SHIP AND CONTINUED THE BATTLE, FORCING THE BRITISH TO SURRENDER

20 BATTLE OF THE THAMES (OCTOBER 1813) GENERAL WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON LED HIS FORCES INTO BRITISH CANADA TECUMSEH DIED DURING THIS BATTLE, FIGHTING FOR THE BRITISH

21 BRITISH ATTACK WASHINGTON DC BRITISH BURNED THE CAPITOL AND THE WHITE HOUSE AND CAPTURED WASHINGTON DC

22 BATTLE OF FORT MCHENRY STAR SPANGLED BANNER WRITTEN BY FRANCIS SCOTT KEY DESCRIBING HIS EYE WITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE

23 BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS AMERICANS LED BY ANDREW JACKSON AMERICANS WON BRITISH HAD 2500 CASUALTIES AND AMERICANS HAD 71 WAR HAD ENDED 2 WEEKS BEFORE BATTLE WAS OVER AND THE SOLDIERS NEVER KNEW

24 IMPACT OF THE WAR OF 1812 INCREASED AMERICAN PATRIOTISM BROKE THE STRENGTH OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS INCREASED AMERICAN MANUFACTURING AND MADE US LESS RELIANT ON FOREIGN MADE PRODUCTS