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REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY: THE JEFFERSONIAN VISION

REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY: THE JEFFERSONIAN VISION. America: Past and Present Chapter 8. Republican Identities in a New Republic. An age of rapid population growth 7.2 million in 1810; two million more than 1800 20% black slaves children under 16 the largest single group.

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REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY: THE JEFFERSONIAN VISION

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  1. REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY: THE JEFFERSONIAN VISION America: Past and Present Chapter 8

  2. Republican Identities in a New Republic • An age of rapid population growth • 7.2 million in 1810; two million more than 1800 • 20% black slaves • children under 16 the largest single group

  3. North America in 1800

  4. Westward the Course of Empire • Intense migration to West after 1790 • New States • Kentucky--1792 • Tennessee--1796 • Ohio--1803 • Western regional culture = rootless, optimistic

  5. Jeffersonian Reforms • Priority to cutting federal debt, taxes • Federal expenses trimmed by cutting military • Reduction of the army removes threat to Republican government • Competent bureaucrats retained regardless of party • Federalists retire from public life • Ambitious Federalists become Republicans

  6. The Lewis and Clark Expedition • Lewis and Clark Expedition commissioned prior to purchase of Louisiana • Expedition left St. Louis May 1804 and reached the Pacific Ocean November 1805 • Report on Louisiana’s economic promise confirms Jefferson's desire to purchase

  7. The Louisiana Purchase and the Route of Lewis and Clark

  8. The Barbary States

  9. Jefferson’s Critics • Dispute over federal court system • Conflicts between Republicans • Sectional dispute over the slave trade

  10. Attack on the Judges: Judiciary Act • Judiciary Act of 1801 creates new circuit courts filled with loyal Federalists • 1802--Jeffersonians repeal Judiciary Act of 1801 to abolish courts • Federalists charge violation of judges’ Constitutional right of tenure

  11. Attack on the Judges: Marbury v. Madison • Marbury v. Madison (1803) rules Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional • Federalist Marbury denied his judgeship • Republicans claim victory • Chief Justice John Marshall ensures Federalist influence through judicial review

  12. Attack on the Judges: Impeachments • 1803--Federalist John Pickering impeached, removed for alcoholism, insanity • Republicans begin fearing the destruction of an independent judiciary • Jefferson exacerbates fears by seeking to impeach Federalist Samuel Chase • Republican Senate refuses to convict

  13. Politics of Desperation:The Yazoo Controversy • Yazoo controversy • fraudulent land case in Georgia • Jefferson attempts to settle by providing land to innocent parties • Quids complain settlement condones fraud • Fletcher v. Peck (1810) • Marshall court upholds Jefferson’s settlement • court may nullify unconstitutional state laws

  14. Murder and Conspiracy: The Curious Career of Aaron Burr • Vice-President Aaron Burr breaks with Jefferson • 1804--Burr seeks Federalist support in 1804 New York governor’s race • Alexander Hamilton blocks Burr’s efforts • Burr kills Hamilton in a duel

  15. The Burr Conspiracy • Burr flees West after Hamilton duel • Schemes to invade Spanish territory • Burr arrested, tried for treason • John Marshall acquits on Constitutional grounds of insufficient evidence • Precedent makes it difficult for presidents to use charge of treason as a political tool

  16. A New Administration Goes to War • 1808--James Madison elected President • 1809--Embargo repealed in favor of Non-Intercourse Act • U.S. will resume trade with England and France on promise to cease seizure of U.S. vessels • Madison reopens English trade on unconfirmed promise of British minister • English reject agreement, seize U.S. ships that opened trade with England

  17. A New Administration Goes to War (2) • Macon’s Bill Number Two replaces the Non-Intercourse Act • Trade with both England and France reestablished • First nation to respect American rights wins halt of U.S. trade with the other • Napoleon promises to observe U.S. rights but reneges when trade reopened

  18. The Strange War of 1812:Early Course • Americans unprepared for war • Congress refuses to raise wartime taxes • New England refuses to support war effort • United States Army small • state militias inadequate • 1813--U.S. wins control of Great Lakes in Battle of Put-In Bay

  19. Strange War of 1812:The War’s Conclusion • 1814--three-pronged English attack • campaign from Canada to Hudson River Valley stopped at Lake Champlain • campaign in the Chesapeake results in burning of Washington, siege of Baltimore • campaign for New Orleans thwarted by Andrew Jackson, January, 1815 • Treaty of Ghent signed December, 1814

  20. The War of 1812

  21. Hartford Convention: The Demise of the Federalists • Federalists convene December, 1814 • Proposed Constitutional changes to lessen power of South and West • Treaty of Ghent, victory of New Orleans makes Convention appear disloyal • Federalist party never recovers

  22. Treaty of Ghent Ends the War • Most problems left unaddressed • Senate unanimously ratifies Treaty of Ghent • Americans claim success in a "second war of independence"

  23. Republican Legacy • Founders begin to pass away in 1820s • Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both die July 4, 1826 • James Madison dies in 1836 • despairs that Declaration’s principles not yet extended to African Americans

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