Day 38: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic

Baltimore Polytechnic InstituteOctober 26, 2015

A Course U.S. HistoryMr. Green

Objective: Students will:evaluate to what extent Jefferson contradicted himself once he became President of the U.S. by explaining how Jefferson’s idealistic Revolution of 1800 proved to be more moderate and practical once he began exercising presidential power.

The New Government

FederalistsSplit with

Adams/HamiltonWar prepIncreased public debtNew taxes/stamp taxNew navy

RepublicansBurr/JeffersonWhispering campaignAtheist Thief Slave powerRevolution of 1800

Federalist & Republican Mudslingers

Why was the election decided in the House of Representatives?

The 2 JeffersonsJefferson #1: states’ rights, weak federal governmentJefferson #2: left Federalist programs for funding the government intact

Judiciary Act of 1801midnight judgesMarbury v. Madison

Election of 1800

Reduced the military to 2500 officers and men

Barbary WarsUS Federalist administrations paid tribute to Algiers while denouncing the XYZ affairJefferson sent the small navy to the North Coast of Africa for 4 years of intermittent fighting

Outcome: treaty of peace from Tripoli in 1805 for $60,000

Jefferson, a reluctant warrior

Napoleon convinced king of Spain to cede the Louisiana territory to France

Frontier farmers needed New Orleans open for depositJefferson sent an envoy to France to make a deal for 10

millionNapoleon decided to sell all of Louisiana for 15 million

2 reasons:Santo Domingo (Haiti)Money for war with Britain

How did events in Europe impact America’s foreign diplomacy?

Louisiana Godsend

Outcomes of the Louisiana PurchaseIdeal of great agrarian republicPrecedents for future expansion

acquisition of foreign territoryacquisition of foreign peoples incorporation into the Union on an equal basis

Napoleonic Code still utilized in Louisiana as its legal system

Louisiana in the Long View

Corps of Discoveryscientific observationsknowledge of the Indiansmaps

Aaron Burr ConspiraciesAttempted to plot the secession of New EnglandHamilton exposed the conspiracy and Burr challenged him to a duelBurr tried to secede the western territories but that was exposed.

Lewis and Clark

Despite his intentions, Jefferson became deeply entangled in the foreign-policy conflicts of the Napoleonic era, leading to a highly unpopular and failed embargo that revived the moribund Federalist Party.

Impressment Chesapeake AffairEmbargo Act-forbade the export of all goods from the

United StatesIllicit trade ballooned and Jefferson convinced Congress

to pass enforcement legislationNon-intercourse Act-trade with all but Britain and France

A Precarious Neutrality

Evaluate to what extent Thomas Jefferson contradicted himself when he became President of the United States.

Wrap-Up

Write an editorial favoring either the views of Hamilton or Jefferson for a newspaper in 1800. You may NOT select both.

Editorial Title:Newspaper Name:City:Date:

Homework-Due Tuesday

Continue Reading Chapter 11 to the end Presidential election chart for 1800 and the

remainder of the Presidential election charts

Homework