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Republicans in Power, 1800-1828
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Republicans in Power, 1800-1828
Growth & Expansion, 1800 - 1850
Geographic
Political
Economic
Demographic
Conflict & Crises
External threats
Internal
Foreign affairs
Politics
Expansion
Slavery
Conflict & Crises
Election of 1800
Party “tickets”
Federalists vs. Democratic-Republicans
Federalist Party
Strong Federal government
National Bank
Tariffs - Industry
Great Britain
Democratic-Republican Party
States’ rights
Agrarian
France
Election of 1800
Federalists
Adams Pinckney
Election of 1800
Democratic-Republicans
Jefferson Burr
Election of 1800
Jefferson
53% popular vote
Electoral College
Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr
73 electoral votes each
President
Thomas Jefferson VP Aaron Burr
“Republican simplicity”
Dress, manners
Limited federal government
Slashed spending
Barbary Coast
Tribute payments
USS Philadelphia
Barbary Coast War
Commodore Stephen Decatur
From the Halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea…”
Louisiana Territory
New Orleans
James Monroe Robert Livingston
Pierre Du Pont De Nemours
Louisiana Purchase
3¢ per acre
"We have lived long, but this is the noblest
work of our whole lives...From this day the
United States take their place among the
powers of the first rank.“ - Robert Livingston
Meriwether Lewis William Clark
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Sacajawea
“…peace, commerce, and honest
friendship with all nations, entangling
alliances with none.” - Th. Jefferson, 1801
Neutrality
Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815
Napoleon Bonaparte
1799 1804
“impressment”
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, 1807
Embargo Act, 1807
“commercial warfare”
“embargo” = prohibition
No trade with England or France
Election of 1808
James Madison
War of 1812
Congressional “war hawks”
Henry Clay John C. Calhoun
War of 1812
commercial naval warfare
Merchant ships
blockade & raids
frontier
Atlantic – Gulf of Mexico
Border with Canada
Great Lakes
Detroit
August 1812
Battle of Lake Erie
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
Sept 1813
August 1814
Washington, DC
Baltimore – Fort McHenry
Sept 1814
Francis Scott Key
“…the rockets red glare,
the bombs bursting in
air…”
Southern frontier
Creek War, 1814
Andrew Jackson
Horseshoe Bend
Treaty of Ghent - Dec, 1814
Treaty of Ghent - Dec, 1814
No territorial gains/losses
Prisoner exchanges
Compensation for slaves
Ships/crews returned
Growth &
Expansion
