Ap Us Chapter 11

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first in which federalists and democratic-republicans functioned as 2 nat'l political parties/ john adams (f) and thomas jefferson (d-r) ran against each other/ NY was the key state (d-r)/ jefferson won (73-65)

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presidential election of 1800

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ran against john adams in 1800 and won/ democratic-republican/

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thomas jefferson

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refused to fight with France/ federalist/ "father of the American Navy"/ lost in the election of 1800

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john adams

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seamen for the "new Navy"/ sailors in the "new Navy" that had nothing to do because the country did not go to war with France

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"john adam's jackasses"

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woman slave at Monticello that jefferson had a long-rumored intamacy with (turned out to be true)

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sally heming

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nickname for jefferson by northern critics because he used "slave power" to win the election (3/5 of the slave population was used for representation)

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"negro president"

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jefferson's vice presidential running mate/ received the same amount of electoral votes for the presidency

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aaron burr

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a politician whose political goose has been cooked at the recent elections

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"lame duck"

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removed the possibility of a tie in an election and the rule that each elector had 2 votes, with the second place finisher becoming vice president

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twelfth amendment

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crude new national capital/swampy village/rustic setting/ lent itself admirably to the simplicity and frugality of the Jeffersonian Republicans

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washington, d.c.

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jefferson kicked this away/ it bred bureaucrats and bore heavily on his farmer following/ getting rid of this cost the fed. gov't about $1 million a year of needed revenue

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excise tax (hamiltonian)

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swiss-born, french accented/"watchdog of the treasury"/ sec. of the treasury to jefferson/ succeeded in reducing the nat'l debt while balancing the budgit

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albert gallatin

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jefferson shrewdly absorbed the major federalist programs and showed that a change of regime does not need to be disastrous for the defeated group

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"revolution of 1800"

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"deathbed"/ one of the last important laws passed by the federalist congress/ created 16 new federal judgeships and other judicial offices held by federalists/ jefferson denounced the last minute appointees by Adams as open defiance of the people's will expressed at the polls/ repealed a year later

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judiciary act of 1801

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last minute appointees commissioned by Pres. adams at night on adams's last day in office (one 3 were actually signed on the last day)

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"midnight judges"

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chief justice whom adams had appointed to the supreme court/ strong-willed, cousin of jefferson/ dominated the S.C./ lifelong Federalist/ served for 3 decades

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john marshall

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"midnight judge" whom adams named as a justice of the peace for DC/ upset because his commision was being retired by James Madison (new sec. of state)

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william marbury

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tried to get ride of william marbury's commision as a justice of the peace in DC and marbury tried to sue him for it

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james madison

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this act had attempted to assign to the supreme court powers that the constitution had not foreseen

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judiciary act of 1789

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marbury was upset because his commision was being retired by James Madison (new sec. of state) so he tried to sue madison/ marbury was denied because the part of the jud. act of 1789 on which he tried to base his appeal was unconstitutional/ (marbury did not win)/ marshall greatly magnified the authority of the court

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marbury v. madison (underlined)

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the idea that the supreme court alone had the last word on the question of constitutionality (promoted by marshall in marbury v. madison)

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"judicial review"

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jefferson urged the impeachment of this arrogant and tart-tongued supreme court justice/ so unpopular, repub. named vicious dogs after him/ house voted against him in 1804 but senate did not/ was not impeached/ illustrated the power balance

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samuel chase

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blackmailed and plundered merchant ships in the Mediterranean/ used to be forced to buy protection/

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pirates of north africa

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4 states of north africa: morocco, algeria, tunisia, tripoli

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barbary states

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jefferson reluctantly went to war with pirates here in 1801 with a series of intermittent fighting/ fighting was stopped with a treaty of peace in 1805 for $60,000

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tripoli

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jefferson advocated a large number of these small gunboats/ "jeffs"/ valuable in guarding american shores/ 200 constructed/ proved to be ineffective

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"mosquito fleet"

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received the trans-missippi region of LA from the spanish in 1800

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napoleon bonaparte

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jefferson sent him and livingston in 1803 to paris to buy as much trans-missippi land as they could for $10 million

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james monroe

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jefferson sent him and monroe in 1803 to paris to buy as much trans-missippi land as they could for $10 million

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robert livingston

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led infuriated ex-slaves in santo domingo that caused napoleon to not be able to conquer it

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toussaint L. overture

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napoleon suddenly decided to sell all of LA to America and land all the way to the west (failed to reconquer santo domingo for which LA was to serve as a source of foodstuffs)/(didn't want america to run to the british, his enemy)/ signed april 30th, 1803 for about $15 million (828,000 sq miles, $0.03 an acre)

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louisiana purchase

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jefferson's personal secretary who went with clark to explore the northern part of the LA Purch in the spring of 1804

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meriwether lewis

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young army officer who went with jefferson's personal secretary lewis to explore the northern part of the LA Purch in the spring of 1804

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william clark

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shoshoni woman who helped lewis and clark ascend the "great muddy" (MO River) from st. louis, go through the rockies, and descend the columbia river to the Pac. coast

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sacajewea

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ventured into the sountern portion of the LA Territory where he sighted the CO peak that bears his name (1805-1806)

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zebulon m. pike

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governor of LA territory/ agent to the spanish crown/ alliance with burr to separate west from eastern US and then expand the west

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james wilkinson

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won't charge burr with treason because he did no act, just had intentions

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john marshall

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jefferson beats charles pinkney 162 to 14

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presidential election of 1804

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brit horatio lord nelson beats span and french at sea...british sea supremacy

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battle of trafalger

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in austria "battle of 3 emperors" napoleon (fr) beats russia and austria = french land supremacy

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battle of austerlitz

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1806, closes european ports under french control to foreign trade, unless the ships stopped at a british port first

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orders in council

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the forcible enlistment of sailors, brit takes 600 americans

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impressment

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a US ship from which brit demanded 4 deserters, US wouldnt comply, so brit shoots at it and takes 4 men

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chesapeake

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1807, forbids all exports of american goods, hurts american economy, pp dont like it

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embargo act

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congress repeals embargo acts and puts this in its place, reopens foreign trade with all except brit and france

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non-intercourse act

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congress rids of embargo completely in 1810 and says if either brit or france repealed their trade restrictions, american would put embargo on other nation

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macon's bill no. 2

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young hot heads of congress who were willing to fight, republicans from the S and W

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war hawks

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brothers get indians E of the MS river united to basically boycott/reject white goods, customs, etc.

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tecumseh, "the prophet"

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governor of indiana territory, gets army because he was the nat'l hero at tippecanoe

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william henry harrison

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fall of 1811, the prophet leads a small group of shawnees to attack william henry harrison, indians lose, drives tecumseh to ally with brit

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battle of tippecanoe

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tecumseh fights with brit here and died, 1813, dreams of indian confederacy perishing

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battle of thames

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republican from TN, only way to rid the indian threat is to rid of their canadian base

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felix grundy

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congress votes in favor, ppl in S and W and republicans in VA and PN want war, federalists dont/ feds dont want war bc the war is to acquire canada (canada is mainly agricultural) which would mean more repub. voters/ feds in NE help brits, so America would win canada

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"mr. madison's war"