PRESID

ENT JE

FFERSON

INAUGURAL ADDRESS

• Like all Presidents, Jefferson gave a speech when he became President• This is called an “inaugural address”

• In it he said “We are all republicans, we are all federalists.” • He is saying that everyone was an American first and

that we should stop arguing so much and dividing ourselves this way.

HAMILTON’S FINANCIAL PLAN

Jefferson did NOT like Hamilton’s financial plan He thought the Bank of the United States was

unconstitutional He thought the excise tax on whiskey was wrong He did not like a large debt

When he became President Jefferson Got rid of the excise tax Kept the National Bank

LOUISIANA PURCHASE

America had been using the city of New Orleans and the Mississippi River to send its products to markets while Spain controlled it

Spain gave it back to France in a secret treaty Jefferson sent Monroe and Livingston to ask to buy New Orleans from

France France offered to sell all of Louisiana and they said yes

It cost 3 times the amount of money in the whole American budget! But it more than doubled the size of America

Jefferson approved it, but wanted an amendment to make it Constitutional

The people liked it and didn’t worry about it being constitutional, so he did not worry about making the amendment

LEWIS AND CLARK

Jefferson wanted to know what was in the land to the west of America and wanted to see if there was a river that ran all the way to the Pacific Ocean

He sent Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and a group of explorers to the Pacific to find out Never asked Congress to approve this It was a secret mission

They had peace medals to give to the Native Americans they met

They came back 3 years later with amazing stories and objects

THE PRESS

While he was Vice President, Jefferson wrote the Kentucky Resolution to say that the Sedition Act was wrong and should be nullified by states

As President many newspapers criticized Jefferson He never stopped them from writing He quietly supported pro-Republican newspapers with his own

money They printed stories that made him look good

Also, he never answered questions about whether he had a relationship with Sally Hemmings, an enslaved woman at Monticello Did not say yes or no; he said nothing

FOREIGN TROUBLES

France and England had been at war for a while They were bothering American boats on the oceans

England said any boat going to Europe could be shot down Called the “Orders in Council”

France said all boats going to England could be shot down Called the “Continental System”

American boats were being attacked Example: the Chesapeake was taken by the British

and American sailors were kidnapped

THE EMBARGO

Jefferson reacted to all the troubles with England and France by passing the Embargo Act Said that American boats were not allowed to leave

America at all! We could not trade with anybody

Did this because he didn’t want America to be dragged into a war because of another fight like what happened to the Chesapeake

This hurt American shippers in New England the most Many of them broke the law and sent their boats out

anyways