Jefferson to Monroe

Election of 1800

• Tried to avoid opposing party vice-president

  • Burr from NY helped to sway it to Jefferson’s favor

  • Jefferson was more popular in the S and W

• Election is tied between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

  • They have to go to the House of Rep to decide who breaks the tie

12th amendment

• make the vote for Pres and VP jointly in electoral college

• Running mate on the Presidential “ticket” for a political party

Jefferson’s Goals as President

-Check the growth of government power

-“We are all republicans, we are all Federalists”

-Treat everyone like equals

-Bring back the original intentions of the revolution

Marbury vs Madison

-Marbury is asking the court to issue a writ of mandamus

• this would ORDER Madison to deliver the papers for Marbury to have his job or prove why he can’t

Judicial Review

-Court must use Constitution to determine decisions 

-Constitution states it must supersede all other laws

-If court says law doesn’t follow constitution it is no longer a law

Southern Dominance

Westward Expansion

Louisiana Purchase

Lewis and Clark

-Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 

-Aided by Sacagawea

-2.5 years

-Gain an understanding of the land, geography, wildlife,waterways

Nationalism

Sectionalism

James Monroe

Battle of New Orleans

Andrew Jackson

Star-spangled Banner

Ghent peace conference

Hartford Convention

Rush-Bagot Treaty

War-hawks

-Next generation of congressmen 

-Mainly from the South and the West

-They wanted to secure the west and disliked the trade the Britain

-Federalists dislike them

Tucumseh

The Prophet

New England during War of 1812

Macon’s Bill no. 2

-Attempt to weaken the embargo on GB and France 

-Passed with the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809

-States that the country (GB or Fr) that ends the trade restrictions first will have the US embargo lifted

Fed. v D-R views on war of 1812

Era of Good feeling

American System

Tariff of 1816

2nd national bank

Internal improvements

“So-called Era of Good Feelings”

Panic of 1816

Revival of Sectionalism

Mo Compromise

Convention of 1818

russo-American Treaty

“Menace of Monarchy”

Monroe Doctrine

McCulloch v Maryland

gibbons v Ogden

Dartmouth college vs Woodward

Fletcher v Peck

Missouri compromise

issues in the west

-Western settlers were continuing to fight against Native Americans

-Tecumseh and the Prophet “Tenskwatawa” tried to organize a confederacy against the settlers

-War Hawks felt Natives were being backed by GB through Canadian territory

-Battle of Tippecanoe

-Settlers were successful under William Harrison

-Natives confederacy died