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| The Hamilton wing of the Federalist Party | ||
| The refusal of Adams to give them a rousing fight with France | ||
| having robbed a widow and her children of a trust fund and fathering the children of his slaves. | ||
| he did not believe in god and separated the church from the state government. | ||
| Old ladies of Federalist families buried their bibles or hung them in wells. | ||
| 73 to 65. | ||
| Through a technicality Jefferson, the presidential candidate, and Burr, his vice presidential running mate, received the same number of electoral votes for the presidency. | ||
| A few Federalists, despairing of electing Burr and hoping for moderation from Jefferson, refrained from voting. | ||
| Federalist presidents | ||
| To restore the republican experiment, to check thegrowth of government power, and to halt the decay of virtue that had set in under Federalist rule. | ||
| He spurned a horse-drawn coach and strode by foot to the Capitol from his boardinghouse. | ||
| Sending messages to Congress to be read by a clerk. | ||
| Jefferson was painfully conscious of his weak voice and unimpressive platform presence. | ||
| Reduced the unreasonable requirement of fourteen years of residence to the previous and more reasonable requirement of five years. | ||
| Albert Gallatin | ||
| The "deathbed" Judiciary Act of 1801 . | ||
| It was claimed that President Adams stayed up late into the night of his last day in office appointed the judges. | ||
| Shaped the American Legal tradition | ||
| He had been painfully impressed with the drawbacks of feeble central authority. | ||
| In order to avoid a political showdown. | ||
| Said that the part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 on which Marbury tried to base his appeal was unconstitutional. | ||
| The Judiciary Review | ||
| "judicial review''—the idea that the Supreme Court alone had the last word on the question of constitutionality. | ||
| To reduce the military establishment to a mere police force of twenty- five hundred officers and men. | ||
| Pirates of the North African Barbary States had long made a national industry of blackmailing and plundering merchant ships that ventured into the Mediterranean. | ||
| The pasha of Tripoli, dissatisfied with his share of protection money, informally declared war on the United States by cutting down the flagstaff of the American consulate. | ||
| 4 years. | ||
| 4 years | ||
| Little coastal craft—"Jeffs'' or the "mosquito fleet,'' as they were contemptuously called. | ||
| To quiet the clamor of the West, Jefferson moved decisively. | ||
| $10 million. | ||
| He had failed in his efforts to reconquer the sugar-rich island of Santo Domingo, for which Louisiana was to serve as a source of foodstuffs. Second, Bonaparte was about to end the twenty-month lull in his deadly conflict with Britain. | ||
| $15 million. | ||
| 3 cents per acre. | ||
| William Clark . | ||
| Trekked to the headwaters of the Mississippi River in 1805-1806. | ||
| Plot the secession of New England and New York. | ||
| Alexander Hamilton | ||
| Burr Challenged Hamilton to a duel. | ||
| Shoot Burr | ||
| he and Wilkinson apparently planned to separate the western part of the United States from the East and expand their new confederacy with invasions of Spanish-controlled Mexico and Florida. | ||
| Burr was acquitted and fled to Europe, where he urged Napoleon to make peace with Britain and launch a joint invasion of America. | ||
| 162 to 14 | ||
| One-eyed Horatio Lord Nelson defeated the combined French and Spanish fleets off the coast of Spain, | ||
| At the Battle of Austerlitz in Austria—the Battle of the Three Emperors—Napoleon crushed the combined Austrian and Russian armies. | ||
| Battle of Three Emperors. | ||
| The orders in council claimed European ports under French control to foreign shipping. | ||
| ... | ||
| This rigorous law forbade the export of all goods from the United States, whether in American or in foreign ships. | ||
| First of all, he underestimated the bulldog determination of the British, as others have, and overestimated the dependence of both belligerents on America's trade. More critically, perhaps, Jefferson miscalculated the unpopularity of such a self- crucifying weapon and the difficulty of enforcing it. | ||
| James Madison | ||
| Southerners desperate for war with Britain | ||
| Two remarkable Shawnee brothers who attempted to gather Indian tribes and conquer the whites. | ||
| The Battle of Tippecanoe made Harrison a national hero. It also discredited the Prophet and drove Tecumseh into an alliance with the British. When America's war with Britain came, Tecumseh fought fiercely for the redcoats until his death in 1813 at the Battle of the Thames. With him perished the dream of an Indian confederacy. | ||
| War with Britain was inevitable | ||
| In order to restore confidence in the republican experiment | ||
| House : 79 to 49, Senate : 19 to 13 | ||
| pro-British Federalists in the Northeast sympathized with Britain and resented the Republicans' sympathy with Napoleon, whom they regarded as the "Corsican butcher" and the "anti-Christ of the age." | ||
| to prevent a wild northwest States | ||
| Old England, and New England. |
