Civilisation des Etats Unis--5c: Young Republic Prof. Sämi LUDWIG UHA Mulhouse

1800: Thomas Jefferson elected  antifederalist 1801 Capital from Philadelphia to Washington D.C Napoleon regains LA territory from Spain 1803 Louisiana Purchase: $15 million  Lewis and Clark expedition ( St. Louis - Missouri River - Dakotas - Rocky Mountains - Pacific) “Essex Junto”  Federalists plan secession 1804 duel: Vice President Burr kills Hamilton = end of federalist party neutral in Napoleonic Wars irony:  stronger central government after Louisiana Purchase!

Thomas Jefferson

Monticello

University of Virginia

Louisiana Purchase

Burr - Hamilton duel

1808: James Madison elected (New York lawyer) “War-Hawks”: - British offenses - solve Indian problems - conquer British Canada War of 1812  “Mr. Madison’s War” Losses against Napoleonic veterans: - Detroit, Buffalo - Capitol and White House burned in August 1814

Francis Scott Key’s  national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner” (Baltimore’s Fort McHenry bombed in 1814): O! SAY can you see by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaning, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? Andrew Jackson’s frontier army: 1815 Battle of New Orleans 1814 Treaty of Ghent  from foreign trade to Western interests  1816 Protective tariff  westward expansion

“The Star-Spangled Banner”

1816: James Monroe elected (  3 rd Virginian) “Era of good feelings” ( )   no Federalist opposition 1819 banking crisis  paper money, “Wildcat banks” Population increase: 1800: 5.3 million  1820: 9.6 million Frontier clashes - James Barbour, Secretary of War: “The happiness of the Indian is a cheap sacrifice to the acquisition of new lands” - John C. Calhoun: Indians “must be brought gradually under our authority and laws”

1811 Battle of Tippecanoe, IN: General William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory, beats Tecumseh, Shawnees

1818 First Seminole War  Andrew Jackson fights the Spanish  1819 US buys Florida from Spain 1822 U.S. recognizes new Latin American Republics 1823 Monroe Doctrine: - noncolonization, nonintervention, isolationism - any portions of the Americas were “henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.... The political system of the allied powers is essentially different... from that of America.... We should consider any attempt to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to out peace and safety.”

Missouri Compromise of 1820