Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?
-
Upload
ashley-norton -
Category
Documents
-
view
223 -
download
1
Transcript of Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?
![Page 1: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Jefferson as President
(1800 - 1808)
Why is Thomas Jefferson a
“sphinx” or an“enigma”?
![Page 2: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
I. “Velvet”Revolution
of 1800
What does TJMean when he says:“We are allRepublicans,we are all Federalists”
![Page 3: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
FederalistAnti -TJCartoon
![Page 4: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
1800 Election Results• Burr (VP) makes power play to “steal” election from TJ after Jefferson & Burr (Democratic-Republicans) defeat Adams & Pinckney (Federalists) – Burr & Jefferson had the same number of votes in the Electoral College.
• House of Reps finally chooses TJ as Pres.and Burr as VP (Hamilton uses influence to help TJ - in part leads to duel w/Burr in 1804)
• 12th amendment added (1804) to separate balloting for President and VP
![Page 5: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
II. TJ First Term Issues (1801-1805)• “Common Man” Precedents (ex: State of the Union, Dress & White House
dinners)
• TJ follows inauguration pledge and keeps most Hamiltonian plans (bond payment, BUS & tariff) = economy improves & national debt is reduced.
• Controversy surrounding “Midnight Judges” - Marbury (selected by Adams) was not granted position by TJ’s Sect. of State Madison
• Federalist Chief Justice John Marshall then strengthens the Supreme Court by declaring parts of the Judiciary Act unconstitutional on a technicality with famous Marbury v. Madison (1803) establishes power of -- Judicial Review
![Page 6: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Barbary Pirates Crisis (1801)How is Jefferson’s conviction tested by the conflicts
with the Barbary states?
![Page 7: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Response: Jefferson’s philosophy conflicts with pragmatic reality;
TJ responds with “Mosquito Fleet” and later agrees to pay less “tribute” to pirates
Results: Avoids all-out war and debt
![Page 8: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon (1803) – Another example ofpolitical philosophy & pragmatism clashing for TJ
![Page 9: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Lewis &Clark (1804-1806)
![Page 10: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
III. Second Term Issues(1805-1809)
• TJ attempts to maintain neutrality in the growing European Napoleonic Wars
• British place embargo on French ports - Napoleon responds with counter blockade. US ships & domestically oriented TJ in the middle.
• Impressment of U.S. sailors & attack on USS Chesapeake (1807) by British further increase tensions.
![Page 11: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
TJ wants US to be neutral in foreign problems and Responds with Embargo Act - (1807)
![Page 12: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Embargo Act repealed after much Federalist argument and
replaced with scaled down “Non-Intercourse” Act (1809)
(not what you think…)
“Economic Coercion” postpones war until 1812.
![Page 13: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Enigmatic Jefferson retires withnation at brink of war and in flux economically
He writes, finishes Monticello and founds UVA…dies on July 4th, 1826
![Page 14: Jefferson as President (1800 - 1808) Why is Thomas Jefferson a “sphinx” or an “enigma”?](https://reader030.fdocuments.net/reader030/viewer/2022032612/56649eb65503460f94bbf2fe/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
• Using the 5th Edition of America’s History (Ch.8), respond to your assigned question with details from the book.
• Why did the Western Indian Confederacy fail to limit white settlement west of the Appalachins?
• What are three reasons large numbers of Americans migrated during the first part of the 19th century?
• Compare the causes on the War of 1812 in Europe and for the Americans.
• What regional tensions and political factions did the War of 1812 expose?
• Discuss the impacts of the two great foreign developments (French Revolution and War of 1812) of this era on the new nation.