2.   First contested election  John Adams & Thomas Pinckney (Federalists)  Thomas Jefferson & Aaron Burr (Republicans)  Revolutionary government of France vocally supported Republicans The Split Election of 1796

3.   James Monroe (French sympathizer) replaced Monroe as diplomat in France with Charles Pinckney  France begins seizing American ships  U.S. Military build up and diplomatic ventures (French Foreign Minister (Charles Perigord)  French diplomats demanded a bribe  Department of the Navy (1798) XYZ Affair

4.   Amend 1790 Naturalization Act – extend residency requirements from 5 to 14 years  Alien Act – deportation of foreigners deemed to be dangerous to the peace and safety of the U.S.  Sedition Act – outlawed language that went against the government  Republican Response – Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (Violation of the Bill of Rights (strict constructionist argument, also argued interposition (each state could use their sovereign power as a barrier between the fed. Gov. and the states’ citizens when natural rights are violated))  Fries’s Rebellion – opposition to taxation to raise funds for the France conflict, Fries raised an army to break out of jail those arrested for refusing to pay taxes in Northampton, Pennsylvania, Fries and his coconspirators would be executed The Home Front in the Quasi-War

5.   November 1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte had overthrown the French government that was responsible for the XYZ affair.  Napoleon’s focus was on building a European empire, not war with the U.S.  Convention of Mortefontaine – ended the Quasi-War on September 30, 1800 Settlement with France

6.   Thomas Jefferson & Aaron Burr (Republicans)  John Adams & Charles Pinckney (Federalists)  Twelfth Amendment – required separate balloting in the Electoral College for president and vice president  Judiciary Act of 1801 – John Adams and other lame duck Federalist expanded the federal court system  Jefferson’s Inaugural address seen as conciliatory  Fisher Ames – an extreme Federalist, stated “ Party is an association of honest men for honest purposes” Election of 1800

7.   Greatest dangers to the republic: high population density and the concentration of money and power  Yeoman farmers  The solution to lack of manufacturing: trade with Europe for manufactured goods with the surplus produced by Yeoman farmers  Laissez Faire government Jefferson’s Vision for America

8.   Major budget cuts  Barbary Wars  France threatens the Treaty of San Lorenzo  The Louisiana Purchase/ Haitian Revolution Jefferson’s Presidency

9.   Jefferson’s view on African Americans – inheritably unequal ( Notes on the state of Virginia (1781))  Gabriel’s Rebellion  Richard Allen – Founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1816  Jefferson’s view on Native Americans Exceptions in Jefferson’s Vision