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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 “NonIntercourse” 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
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“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 Improvements
Protective Tariff
Renewed BUS
Monroe Doctrine
Non 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