The New Republic

What problems might a new nation face?

Chapter 8: Launching a New Nation (1789-1800)

How did the Americans Respond to internal and external challenges?

Section 1: Washington Takes Office

Essential Question: How did President Washington set the course for the new nation?

  • George Washington’s precedents
  • First Cabinet
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Judiciary Act 1789
  • First Economic Crisis
  • Bond
  • Speculators
  • Hamilton’s Plan
  • Part I
  • Southern Reaction
  • Compromise/capital
  • Part II
  • Jefferson’s argument
  • Strict vs. Loose Interpretation
  • Tariff Debate
  • Northern Reaction
  • Southern Reaction
  • The Whiskey Rebellion

Section 2: The Birth of Political Parties

Essential Question: How did two political parties emerge?

  • Political Parties Emerge
  • Factions
  • James Madison’s view
  • George Washington’s view
  • Republicans v. Federalists
  • Republicans
  • Growth
  • Feelings about federal government
  • State power
  • Federalists
  • Origin of name
  • Belief about federal government
  • Thomas Jefferson’s resignation
  • Election of 1796
  • George Washington’s precedent
  • President/V.P. rules of election in 1796
  • Outcome-President and Vice President
  • Result

Section 3: Troubles at Home and Abroad

Essential Question: How did the actions of Britain and France affect the United States?

  • Conflicts in the Northwest Territory
  • British Forts
  • British/Native American relationship
  • Native American reaction to American settlers
  • Battle of Fallen Timbers
  • Treaty of Greenville
  • The French Revolution
  • American support/opposition
  • Republican support
  • British and French at War
  • Federalist support
  • Republican support
  • Impressment
  • John Jay’s Treaty
  • Republican opposition
  • Washington’s Farewell
  • Statement on political parties
  • U.S. involvement in European affairs (No entangling alliances)

Section 4: The Presidency of John Adams

Essential Question: How did problems with France intensify the split between the Federalist and Republicans?

  • Troubles With France
  • French resentment of America
  • XYZ Affair
  • Adams avoids war
  • Alien and Sedition Acts
  • Federalist fear of immigrants
  • Immigrant support of Republicans
  • Alien Act
  • Sedition Act
  • States’ Rights
  • Republican opposition to Alien and Sedition Acts
  • James Madison/Thomas Jefferson and Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
  • Nullification
  • States’ rights

Chapter 9: The Era of Thomas Jefferson (1800-1815)

How did Thomas Jefferson and James Madison deal with unresolved problems?

Section 1: Jefferson Takes Office

Essential Question: How did Jefferson chart a new course for the government?

  • Republicans Take Charge
  • Tie between Jefferson and Aaron Burr
  • Twelfth Amendment
  • Jefferson Charts a New Course
  • Laissez faire
  • Jefferson’s Main Policy Changes
  • Reduce size of government
  • Cut military spending
  • Eliminated taxes, except tariffs
  • Released those jailed from Sedition Act
  • The Supreme Court and Judicial Review
  • John Adams’ appointees
  • Madison stops work on appointees
  • Marbury sues Madison
  • Supreme Court declares Judiciary Act unconstitutional
  • Marbuy v. Madison results in judicial review
  • Stronger Supreme Court

Section 2: The Louisiana Purchase

Essential Question: What was the importance of the Louisiana Purchase and exploration of the Louisiana Territory?

  • The Nation Looks West
  • Spanish control of New Orleans
  • Pickney Treaty
  • 1801- Transfer of Louisiana Territory to France
  • Napoleon’s plan in America
  • Buying Louisiana
  • Spain cuts off New Orleans
  • James Madison offers to buy New Oreans
  • Revolution in Haiti
  • France in financial need
  • Offer to sell Louisiana Territory to U.S.
  • Jefferson’s problem
  • Treaty buys Louisiana Territory ($15 million)
  • Lewis and Clark Explore the West
  • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lead expedition
  • Mission’s Goals
  • Report on geography, plants, animals, and other natural features
  • Make contact with Native Americans
  • Find out if a waterway connected Mississippi River to Pacific Ocean
  • 40 men and Sacajawea
  • Continental divide
  • Zebulon Pike
  • Spanish borderlands

Section 3: A Time of Conflict

Essential Question: How did Jefferson respond to threats to the security of the new nation?

  • Defeating the Barbary States
  • Trade with Europe
  • Pirate attacks
  • Barbary States
  • Tribute
  • Jefferson’s refusal
  • Marines capture Tripoli
  • American Neutrality is Challenged
  • Britain and France at war
  • U.S. remains neutral
  • Seizing of ships
  • Impressment
  • Jefferson Responds with an Embargo
  • Embargo Act 1807
  • Results on economy
  • New England merchants/smuggling
  • Congress repeals the Embargo Act
  • Tecumseh and the Prophet
  • Westward settlement impacts Native Americans
  • Tecumseh/Prophet urge resistance
  • William Henry Harrison and Battle of Tippecanoe

Section 4: The War of 1812

Essential Question: What were the causes and effects of the War of 1812?

  • The Move Toward War
  • 1809 James Madison become President
  • Americans angry at Britain
  • War Hawks
  • New England Opposition
  • Congress declares war (June 1812)
  • Early Days of the War
  • U.S. unprepared for war
  • British blockade
  • The War in the West and South
  • Failure to win Canada
  • Oliver Hazard Perry and Lake Erie
  • Battle of Thames
  • Andrew Jackson and Battle of Horseshoe Bend
  • Final Battles
  • British defeat Napoleon 1814
  • British attack Washington, D.C.
  • Battle of Fort McHenry/ “Star Spangled Banner”
  • Treaty of Ghent
  • Battle of New Orleans
  • Hartford Convention/secede
  • “Second War of Independence”

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