JEFFERSON Peaceful transfer of power in 1801

JEFFERSON • Peaceful transfer of power in 1801. – “We Are all Republican, We are all Federalist” • Maintained many Federalist programs: Nat'l Bank, tariffs, funding debt at par, kept most public servants from Federalist administrations. . Reversed programs: excise tax, pardoned martyrs from the Sedition Act, new naturalization law (5 yrs), reduced the debt and balanced the budget. • Supreme Court issues: Marbury v. Madison, impeachment of Chase • Judicial Nationalism ( against Jefferson’s wishes) • Expansion: Louisiana Purchase – MANIFEST DESTINY • Wars of Tripoli • Embargo Act • “The government that governs least, governs best. ” – Laissez Fair Government – Balance the budget • 12 Amendment

JUDICIAL NATIONALISM • Read Pageant Handout • John Marshall • Discuss 4 Primary Cases – MARBURY V. MADISON • Judicial review • Impeachment of Samuel Chase? Impact? – Mc. Culloch V Maryland – Fletcher V Peck – Gibbons V Ogden

Tripolitan War 1801 -1805 -BARBARY PIRATES (NORTH AFRICAN COAST) TJ SENT NAVY, 4 YEARS OF FIGHTING, WON RESPECT, PROTECTED SHIPS … Set major negotiation precedent

LOUISIANNA PURCHASE • French in 1802 withdrew the right of deposit at New Orleans guaranteed under the Pinckney Treaty of 1795 • James Monroe to Paris to buy New Orleans $10 million. • Napoleon struggling financially in his quest to unite Europe. • Santo Domingo: Toussaint L'Ouverture led ex-slaves in revolt • US spent $15 million – Constitutional? • MANIFEST DESTINY

DOUBLES THE SIZE OF THE U. S, DOUBLES OUR CAPACITY FOR ECONOMIC RESOURCES , POWER & POPULATION, REMOVED A FOREIGN PRESENCE , CEASED EUROPEAN COLONIZATION IN NA, NATIVE REMOVAL INCREASES, MANIFEST DESTINY BEGINS…SEA TO SHINING SEA AND ALL THAT… KIND OF A BIG DEAL.

SENDS LEWIS & CLARK ON AN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE. THEY KEEP A DIARY OF THE TRIP WHICH LASTS FROM 1804 -1806.

Ohhh Aaron Burr. . Won’t you go away? ? ? • Essex Junto: A small group of Federalist extremists plotted for New England's secession from the union and the creation of a seven-state northern confederacy (including NY, NJ, MA, CT, RI, NH, VT) – Hamilton refused offer to lead group, revealed plot, torched Burr in the press. • Burr challenged him to a duel and killed him in a 1804 duel • Ohhhh… but that is enough for Mr. Burr. . no… • In 1806, Burr attempted to separate the western part of the U. S. from the eastern part and unite it with to-be-conquered Spanish territory west of the Louisiana Territory and perhaps in northern Mexico. – Epic Fail: tried for treason…escapes conviction. . But finally, yes… Finally…disappears into obscurity.

-EMBARGO ACT (1807) IMPRESSMENT HAD CONTINUED ON CHESAPEAKE 3 AMERICAN SAILORS TAKEN, CAPTAIN PROTESTS, BRITISH FIRE ON SHIP (VIOLATING INTERNATIONAL LAW) PROHIBITED ALL EXPORTS (HURT ECONOMY, DAMAGED TJ’S POPULARITY) LOTS OF SMUGGLING. . -NON-INTERCOURSE ACT (1809) LIFTED BAN EXCEPT WITH ENGLAND FRANCE