Chapter 8 The Jeffersonian and Madison Presidency

Election of 1800 The following candidates run Adams Jefferson Pinckney Aaron Burr

Hamilton V. Adams As Adams began his reelection Hamilton targets him. Hamilton published a number of pamphlets questioning the morals of Adams. Hamilton attempted to rig the election again for Pinckney.

Jefferson v. Burr Burr and Jefferson both tied in the election. Jefferson eventually wins what is considered the revolution of Twelfth Amendment:Presidential elections will have separate votes for President and Vice President.

Making cuts To deal with coming cost Jefferson decided to cut the Federal Budget. The first step was to reduce the size the Navy The next step was to the remove the size of the military, taking it from full standing and scaling it down. Jefferson did use the Navy and the military when bringing an end to the Barbary Pirates of West Africa, through a blockade and invasion.

The period before the Purchase Before the Louisiana purchase there was much concern over the southern territory. The Spanish seceded the rights to much of their southern territories to the French. With this in mind Jefferson sent representatives to try and diplomatically deal with the French. He would send future diplomat James Monroe, and Robert Livingston.

The Louisiana Purchase Monroe expected for relations to go poorly, but was surprised by how eager the French were to sell the land. The French in reality had growing financial issues under the Napoleon reign. In the end America would buy the territory, for 15 millions dollars Jefferson was able to double the size of the country.

Resentment over the purchase Before Jefferson committed to buying the land from the French he had quite a bit of apprehension. He felt the action would define him as a President that would use the sweeping power of the central government to achieve his goals.

Native American Response Tecumseh, and Prophet classified themselves as Indians for the first time. The pushed Native Americans to avoid contact with whites. They were hoping for a cultural revolution, but eventually this would fall to expansion. Including the battle at Horseshoe bend where natives were forced out of Missippi by Andrew Jackson.

Louis and Clark Expedition A select group of U.S. Army volunteers under the command of Captain Meriwether Lewis and his close friend Second Lieutenant William Clark. The journey lasted from May 1804 to September The primary goal was to explore and map the newly acquired territory, find a practical route across the Western half of the continent The campaign's secondary objectives were scientific and economic: to study the area's plants, animal life. Those who moved west during and after the expedition had the following characteristics. Tried to transplant their Eastern ideas, Needed to adapt to the new environment, Developed new folkways, Depended on water for transportation.While there was a move west many cities in the East were areas of international trade

Beginning of Marbury V. Madison As Adams left he passed the Judiciary act of 1801 It created 12 new circuit courts along with judges to fill them. Adams filled the judgeships with Federalist. (Midnight appointees) The new President Jefferson and Republicans railed against these judges. Stating they were unnecessary due to the lacking amount of cases they would hear.

The court case of Marbury V. Madison Marbury was one of the federalist appointed judges. Then secretary of state James Madison refused to give Marbury the papers that would give him authority of a judge. (Madison believed him to be corrupt. Marbury requested that the case be heard by the supreme court.

Marbury v. Madison The decision The new chief justice Marshall would preside over the case. Marshall ruled on behalf of Madison.

Legacy The key point of the case is that it developed the idea the supreme court had the power of Judicial review Judicial review stated that the supreme court had the power to review laws passed by government and decided if they were constitutional.

Burr controversy Burr was allowed to very little as Vice President Not a good fit for an ambitious man. Burr decided to run governor of New York Hamilton published a series of scathing pamphlets Hamilton though believing it to be silly did not want his on besmirched. Hamilton met Burr in July 10, 1804 and Hamilton was killed.

Regulating the Slave Trade As Jefferson moved forward from the Burr debacle demanded that the political groups in the country developed a way to end the slave trade in America. The northerners favored a strong bill that would even make smuggling slaves into the country a capital offense. Their issue was what to do with slaves that had been confiscated by customs agents The final law stated that the slave trade would end, and all smuggled slaves would integrated into the state customs that they were brought into.

A break in peace By 1803 the peace between France and Britain was broken as the two fought for superiority on land and sea. Originally American traders took advantage making as much money as they could In time Britain created the orders of council which threatened seizure of ships and banned neutral trade. The French followed suit creating similar terms. Jefferson was offended feeling that both sides violated natural rights of a country

Beginning of the Embargo Act Eventually Jefferson developed the idea of creating embargo, basically halting trade with Britain and France, this would hopefully bring both countries back into peaceful trade with the U.S. Eventually enforcing the Embargo act almost turned the government into a police state on the coast. The act hardly damaged the British economy.

James Madison Madison quickly passed the intercourse act. The U.S. opened trade to all nations but a banned trade with the British and French.

Impressment Early in Madison’s presidency British soldiers would pull over American traders and force the sailors to join the British Navy= impressment A group that were pro war known as the war hawks pushed Madison towards war. Eventually Madison declared war on Britain believing taking British held Canada would lead to success in the war.

War of 1812 Madison Failed to capture Canada in time, by the time America had they were quickly pushed out Britain gained controlled of the ocean after destroying the American navy leading to the British burning of Washington. Britain began to patrol off the coast of America=the attack on Ft. Mchenry=inspiration for the star spangled banner.

Battle of New Orleans Britain continued to randomly attack the coas but no plan how to control America Jackson Lead a group of men to defend what was thought to be the weakened point of New Orleans. Jackson won handedly though the war had ended almost a week earlier.

Treaty of Ghent restored the borders of the two countries to the line before the commencement of hostilities Overall it did very little and left future issues to be discussed later.