APUSH

  John Adams BOO!  Federalist, Alien & Sedition Acts  New Navy = “John Adams Jackasses”  Huge Navy, no war with France  Thomas Jefferson & Aaron Burr  FLAWS = state legislature “chooses electors” not popular vote  Jefferson & Burr tie at 73 electoral votes  The decision goes to the House of Representatives  12 th Amendment = Electors choose a Pres & VPres Election of 1800

  Changes Alien & Sedition Acts = Naturalization Law of 1802 (5 yr citizenship)  Repeal excise tax  Reduction of debt, balanced budget  Distrusted a large army  Reduction to 2500 men Jefferson Restraint: Jefferson “Undoes” Federalist Programs

  Federalist Programs remain  Bank of the United States (BUS)  Tariffs  Funding state debts at par Jefferson Restraint: Jefferson “keeps” Federalist Programs

  John Adams begins to “court pack with federalists”  Appoints Madison as Justice of D.C…..the letter does not get delivered before TJ is Pres  Madison sues for delivery of the letter  Chief Justice John Marshall: “The Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconstitutional…the court cannot ENFORCE law, we can merely judge law” = JUDICIAL REVIEW  TJ Angry = court overturns the nullification law!  Payback time…. The Dead Clutch of the Judiciary = Marbury v. Madison 1803

  Barbary Pirates  1801 Tripoli wants more bribery money  4 yrs long  Pays us $60,000  Mosquito Fleet Jefferson & Foreign Policy

  Spain gives France Louisiana Territory 1800  US rights to port of New Orleans revoked!  Go to war with France?????  In 1803, Jefferson sent James Monroe to join regular minister Robert R. Livingston to buy New Orleans and as much land to the east for a total of $10 million, tops! And the rights to the port of New Orleans.  Napoleon sells Louisiana Territory for a bargain of $15 million.  They did not want a US/GB alliance  They abandoned their US dreams of a French empire due to losing of the Napoleonic Wars The Louisiana Godsend

  Strict constructionist  US Constitution does not allow for purchase of land  He lets it happen anyway….. Jefferson = Two Faced

  The purchase created a precedent of acquisition of foreign territory through purchase.  Lewis & Clark  Sacajawea Louisiana in the Long View

  Plots to secede NY & NE  Hamilton exposes him!  Hamilton & Burr “Duel”  Burr tries to secede the West  Many followers  PROBLEM! The US cannot effectively govern the west! Aaron Burr!

  War with GB & FR  British Orders in Council 1806  Shipping must stop in GB before France  6,000 Americans impressed  GB fires on the Chesapeake  US Embargo Act of 1807  No trading to foreign countries  Colonial Response: “That Dambargo!”  Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 (trade yes, GB/FR no) America: A Nutcrackered Neutral

  US turned to building factories That “Dambargo” was pretty “Damgood”

  Non Intercourse Act = Macon’s Bill No. 2  Opens all trade  If we trade w/GB…we won’t trade w/Fr  Vice versa  Napoleon agrees (lies)  GB to trade w/US or we cannot trade at all!  Madison the idiot President Madison

  12 th Congress = “War Hawks”  Want a GB war and expansion into Canada  Argument: GB is supplying Indians in the west War of Causes

  On to Canada to wipe out the Native American base  To protest against GB impressment  Purpose: to restore confidence in Republicanism  PROBLEM  Leads to sectionalism  New England shippers do not want war  Federalists did not want agricultural Canadian lands (more slavery?)  US to fight Old England and New England War of 1812 The Second War of Independence