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 Thomas Jefferson beats
Alexander Hamilton but ties
with Aaron Burr
 Adams – Federalist
 Aaron Burr – Democratic Republicans
 Thomas Jefferson – Democratic
Republicans
 Tie broken by House of
Representatives
 Adams helped secure this
vote; felt TJ was the lesser of
the two evils
 Effectively…TJ
appointed by the House
on the wings of
Southern
Representatives and the
3/5 Compromise
 “The Negro
President”
 Extensive political
experience
 Professional politician
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State legislator
Governor of Virginia
Congressman
Secretary of State
Minister to France
 Serves 2 Terms as
President
 Reduced taxes on the people (repeals excise taxes)
 Pays down debt (Not a blessing, but leaves most of
Hamilton’s treasury structure intact)
 Slashed the size of the army to under 3000 men
(believed large army could lead to dictatorship)
 Pardoned people who had been imprisoned under
the Alien/Sedition Acts
 Naturalization Law of 1802: residence reduced 14
down to 5 yrs
 Repealed the Judiciary Act of 1801
 Dealt with the midnight judges issue (fed.
Judges appointed by Adams in his last days)
 Judicial review (Marbury vs. Madison)
 Fought the country’s 1st
overseas war – Tripolitan
War 1801-05 (Barbary Pirates
War)
 U.S. under TJ refuses to pay
“tribute” to protect ships
 Tripoli declares unofficial
war
 Marines victory in Tripoli
1805 leads to treaty; U.S.
will pay to release prisoners
 Established Military
Academy at West Point
 Signed a bill making slave
importation illegal in the
United States – in effect
1808
 Owned many slaves
 Jefferson – Strict constructionist
 Is the purchase constitutional?
 Madison and Robert Livingston
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negotiated the deal with
Napoleon
Increases the size of the U.S. by
2/3
Total purchase price of 15 million
dollars (3 cents an acre)
Congress authorizes the Lewis
and Clack expedition to map the
new territory
Zebulon Pike: headwaters of Miss.
R. (1805-06); explored southern
territory of purchase (1807)
“This accession of territory affirms forever the
power of the United States, and I have given
England a maritime rival who sooner or later will
humble her pride."
Corps of Discovery
 Mission
 Legitimize the LA. P.
 Get to the Pacific Ocean
 Gain accurate sense of value of
LA.P.
 Aided by Shoshone woman:
Sacajawea
 Achievement of expedition
 Viability of overland travel to the
west
 Created maps (140)
 Zoology/Botany
 Friendly relations with the
Indians (for the most part)
 Jefferson’s 1st VP
 Burr could be unscrupulous,
insincere, devious and amoral
 Habit of placing self-interest
above the good of the whole
 Joins group of extremist
federalists plotted secession of
NE and NY- plot uncovered by
Hamilton (Duel)
 Also tried to separate west and
east and expand west by
attacking Spanish held areas
 Acquitted of treason flees to
Europe
 "In the past even I was afraid of my own greatness,
therefore I could not stand in front of mirrors."
 The Vice President shoots
and kills the 1st Secretary of
the Treasury? Really!
 The events are murky…
 Dueling etiquette
 Rules
 “Deloping”: throw away 1st fire
to abort the conflict
 Europe is at war…again! 1806
 British begins impressments of
U.S. sailors
 Embargo Act of 1807 (Epic Fail)
 Outlawed almost all trading with
foreign nations
 Failed to significantly impact the
Brits or French
 Repealed 1809; Non-Intercourse
Act trade w/ all except Britain
and France
 Only good: NE opens new
factories (beginning of Industrial
Rev)
 1809
 Problems from the start…
 Congress issued Macon's
Bill No. 2. (1810);
reopened American trade
with the entire world
 Madison had to reenact
the trade embargo, but
just against Britain.
 Macon's Bill No. 2 led to
the War of 1812.
British Instigation of Indians
Congress meets
1811; “war hawks”
want to go to war
with the British and
eliminated the
Indian threats to
pioneers
-resent British
constraints on trade
-resent British
instigation of
Indians
British General Brock Meets
with Tecumseh
Battle of Tippecanoe, 1811
General William Henry
Harrison  governor of
the Indiana Territory.
Tecumseh (a Shawnee) organized a
confederacy of Indian tribes to fight
for their homelands.
Tecumseh’s brother, Tenskwatawa “the
prophet” fought against Harrison and
was defeated at Tippecanoe.
This made Harrison a national hero!
[1840 election  Tippecanoe & Tyler,
too!]
 Madison asked Congress to declare war on the British
and it agreed.
 The Democratic-Republicans supported the war
("war hawks") felt that the country had to assert
American rights to the world. They wanted to invade
Canada, the Indians' stronghold, because the Indians
were being armed by the British to attack the settlers.
 The Federalists were opposed because they
supported Britain.