Jeffersonian Democracy

President Jefferson Jeffersonian Democracy The Supreme Court Religion in the Republic Deism Second Great Awakening Church and State Jefferson and France - Expanding the Republic - Jefferson and Native Americans. Honor and Society - Hamilton-Burr duel The Empire Strikes Back: - War with France - Sideshow in America

Thomas Jefferson Studied as lawyer – Elected to VA House 1775 – VA delegate to Second Cont. Congress

Thomas Jefferson – Governor of Virginia – Secretary of State Jan – resigned.

Monticello

“We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists” – The Farmer Opposed Federalist ideas

Jeffersonian Democracy Americans closer to their President? Stressed right to criticize government. Smaller government.

Marbury v. Madison William Marbury sued for Fed. Job. John Marshall heard case. Supreme Court power of Judicial Review

Religion in the Republic Deism – embraced by Jefferson. Second Great Awakening: reaction to deism.

Separation of Church and State? US Constitution?

Expansion of the Republic Jefferson believed in agrarian nation. Purchase of New Orleans or New France from France

Louisianan Purchase Napoleon head of directory. Can President legally purchase land?

Goals: Find the Northwest Passage Map the interior Est. Relations with Native Americans The Corps of Discovery: 1804

Merriweather Lewis William Clark

Contact with Native Americans Elaborate ceremony with presentation of gifts. “Govern by Commerce, rather than arms.”

Corps of Discovery: 1805 Aug 12 – Expect to find Pacific --- Rocky Mountains Nov. - Pacific Ocean reached.

Succession, Burr and the Duel Federalist threat of succession Burr as Federalist candidate. Weak federal government.

France after the Revolution The Directory – Napoleon plotted coup d'état – Emperor Napoleon I

Coronation of Josephine

The Empire

Napoleon's Downfall 1812 – Invasion of Russia – Napoleon abdicates – Hundred Days Empire

Island of Elba

Island of St. Helena

Jefferson and Neutrality Washington's Farewell. British impressment of Americans. Embargo Act

Election of 1808 Non-Intercourse Act Is America a separate nation?

The Empire Strikes Back June 12, 1812 – War Declaration Invasion of Canada British blockade.

The Redcoats are Coming (Again) August 1814 – Full invasion. August 24 – Burning of Washington, DC

Burning of Washington: Aug

“O'er the ramparts we watched...” Bombardment of Fort McHenry. British move into Baltimore

Fort McHenry

Opposition to Madison's War War for territory?Dec Hartford Convention - Nullification of Federal law.

End to the War: Birth of the U.S Winter – Battle of New Orleans - Andrew Jackson: The Hero of New Orleans Treaty of Ghent

Treaty of Ghent

Sources Monographs: Borneman, Walter R., 1812: The War that Forged a Nation Fea, John, Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction. Meacham, Jon, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power Wood, Gordon S., Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic M