JC+Chapter+Eleven+Notes

-many of the federalists were upset that they could not fight a war with France and thought the building of the military was not a good idea -many thought the military was too extravagant and the Navy was referred to as "John Adam's Jackasses" -the federalsits concentrated on making Jefferson look bad, spreading rumors about him and his slaves and being an athiest -Jefferson won 73 votes to 65 botes against Adams because many o f the states that voted for him addopted universal white manhood sufferage -many northerners wre angry because he had an unfair advantage being from the south and getting votes from slaves -John Adams was the last Federalsit president of the United States -In Jefferson's eyes, Hamilton and Adams betrayed the ideals of 1776 and 1787 -Jefferson inaugurated on March 4, 1801 -in the adress, he covered many points while including all of his social groups -He began to send messages to Congress to be read by a clerk until 112 years later -Jefferson thought that always looking presentable and showing up created a monarchal presence. -Jefferson had to reverse many of the political principles he once held durrin ghis presidency -although he had many friends seeking cabinet positions, he only fired few from office for political reasons -as the Federalsits faded, so did the Democratic Republicans -Jeffersonians enacted the new naturalization law of 1802 which reduced the unreasonable requirement of fourteen years residence to the previous of 5 -Albert Galllatin proved to be as good as a sevretary of the Treasury as Hamilton and saw eye to eye with Jefferson on national debt -left most of Hamiltons plans in place (except excise tax) -Judiciary Act of 1801 it created 16 new federal judgeships and other judicial offices (passed by Federalists) -it was said to be packed with lifetime judges with anti Jeffersonian partisans -Chief Justice John Marshall was a cousin of Jefferson was appointed by Adams and shaped the American legal tradition more than any other single figure -HE served at Valley Forge and being oppresed made him a lifelong Gederalsit and wanted to strenghthen the federal government -although Federalist party died out, he still held many federalsit ideals -Marbury v Madison 1803 questioned who had final say in meaning of Constitution -as president, one of Jeffersons girst actions was to reduce the military to 2500 people -he wanted to set an example for the world showing peaceful coercion -Jefferson sent the new navy to the shores of Tripoli and made a peave treaty in 1805 which they had to give 60,000 dollars for captured Americans -1803 Jefferson sent james Monroe to Paris to buy New Orleans for a maximum of 10 million dollars -France sold LA because they had no use of it since their colony in Santo Domingo was not doing well since it was infested with misquitos and diseases and cost too much money to run -April 30, 1803 Louisiana belonged to United States for 15 million dollars -Jefferson admitted to senate that purchase of land was unconstitutional -even today, LA has many french influences -1804 Jefferson sent Louis and Clark to explore northern part of the Louisiana purchase -came back with many descriptions and maps of west -Aaron Burr (jefersons first term VP) formed a plot the secession of New England and New York after being removed from cabinet. his plan was ruined by Hamilton -Burr killed Hamilton with one shot and destroyed the Federalist party -after tyring to start his own confederacy in the West, Jefferson found out and charged Burr with treason -he was aquitted since there was nothing he did that was indeed treason and fled to Europe -After getting rid of Louisiana, Napoleon began another war with England which went on for 11 years -this became a problem for trading with other countries - -