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TJ First Term Issues (1801-1805)
• “Common Man” Precedents
• TJ follows inauguration pledge and keeps most Hamiltonian economic plans=economy improves & national debt is reduced.
• Federalist Chief Justice John Marshall strengthens the Supreme Court: – Marbury v. Madison (1803) establishes power of Judicial
Review
• Territorial Expansion (Louisiana Purchase/Lewis & Clark Expedition)
Second Term Issues (1805-1809)• TJ attempts to maintain neutrality in Napoleonic Wars
• Impressment of U.S. sailors & attack on USS Chesapeake (1807) by British further increase tensions
• Embargo Act of 1807; replaced with scaled down “Non-Intercourse” Act (1809)
• “Economic Coercion” postpones war until 1812
War of 1812
Causes• British impressments• British interference
w/American commerce• British aid to Native
Americans on frontier
Consequences• Contributed to demise of
Federalist party• Intensified nationalist
feelings/heroes• Promoted industrialization• http://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=50_iRIcxsz0
“Era of Good Feelings”?• How did the “Era of Good Feeling” get its name?• Monroe as President (1817 – 1825)• Growing Nationalism & Sectionalism
Growing Nationalism in the US following the War of 1812
• Legal Nationalism• Cultural Nationalism• Economic Nationalism– Henry Clay’s “American
System”• Internal improvements to
promote trade• Protective tariffs• Divides North/South
• Diplomatic Nationalism– Monroe Doctrine
Celebration of War /Military Heroes Authors & Artists
Rebuilding of National Capital
Economic Nationalism
2nd B.U.S. & Nicholas Biddle
Protective Tariff of 1816
Henry Clay (KY) & his “American System”:
Federally Funded Internal ImprovementsProtective TariffRenewed BUS
Monroe DoctrineNon Colonization Non Intervention
Diplomatic & Economic Results of War
• U.S. Gains some international respect• Dislike of England in particular & European affair
in general increases – renewed isolationism• No more Indian resistance east of Mississippi• Westward expansion & nationalism increase• U.S. industries become more self sufficient due
to embargo and lack of trade during war
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