Ch7 Age Of Jefferson Flashcards
Jeffersons first term
- maintain national bank + debt repayment plan
- neutrality policies
- limit central gov
- reduce size of military
- repeal excise tax
- lowered national debt
- suspend alien + sedition acts
- tries to impeach Federalist judges (UNSUCCESSFUL)
ONLY REPUBS IN HIS CABINET
LA Purchase background
1800 – French forced Spain to give back territory
1803 – Napoleon lost plan:
- Need French resources to fight Eng
- Rebellion in Santo Domingo = French loss
US interest
1802 Spanish closed port in New Orleans – revoked right of deposit fro Pickney treaty of 1795
LA Purchase
Gave New Orleans + entire Louisiana territory
Constitutional prob + effects of LA Purchase
No clause in constitution says president can purchase foreign land
More hope that country’s future based on agrarian society of independent farmers (not urban + industrial)
Federalist seen as weak
Importance of Lewis and Clark expedition 1804
Better relations with American Indians
Greater knowledge of region
Stronger claims to Oregon territory
Marbury v Madison
1803
Background, result, significance
1st decision by John Marshall
- Prev, John Adams appointed Federalist judges
- President Jefferson ordered James Madison NOT to deliver commissions to those Federalist judges
- William Marbury sued for commission
Marshall said under Judiciary Act 1789, Court had a greater power than constitution allowed—>
Marbury would not receive commission
Marshall sacrificed what would have been small federalist gain for the larger long term judicial victory
** by ruling a lot congress = unconstitutional, he established judicial review
Judicial review
- SC exercise power to decide if active congress/Pres was allowed by constitution
- SC cud overrule actions by other 2 branches
POWER
Quids
I choose to Jefferson of abandoning Democratic Republican principles
Barbary pirates
-Jeff refused to pay = sent small fleet of U.S. Navy to Mediterranean
- no decisive victory but:
1. Gained some respect
2. Letter to protect US vessels trading in Mediterranean
impressment
Napoleonic wars
–> seized neutral nations + confiscated cargoes
–>Brit captured US sailors + claimed they Brit citizens + force them to serve in Brit navy
Chesapeake leopard affair
1807
Brit warship Leopard fired US warship Chesapeake
Anti-British feelings
BUT JEFF SET ON NEUTRALITY
Embargo act
1807
**Alternative to war due to Chesapeake leopard affair
“peaceable coercion”
-prohibited American merchant ships from sailing to foreign ports
(hoping would affect Britain)
BACKFIRED
–> greater economic hardship to US
(Esp to merchant + shipbuilders of New England)
–> so bad that new England states wanted to secede from union
Brit determined to control the seas + no difficulty in substituting US
REPEALED 1809
Nonintercourse Act
1809
Places embargo act
US ship could trade with all nations EXCEPT Brit + France
Macon’s bill no. 2
1810
Macon introduced bill to restore US trade w/ Brit + France
BUT
If either Brit or France formally agreed to respect US neutrality,
US would prohibit trade with the other nation
Causes of War of 1812
- Violation of US neutral rights at sea
2. Troubles with British on western frontier