Republicans in Power, 1800-1828
Growth & Expansion, 1800 - 1850
 Geographic
 Political
 Economic
 Demographic
Conflict & Crises
 External threats
 Foreign affairs
 Internal
 Politics
 Expansion
 Slavery
Federalist Party
 Strong Federal government
 National Bank
 Tariffs - Industry
 Great Britain
Democratic-Republican Party
 States’ rights
 Agrarian
 France
Electoral College
Election of 1800
Federalist
Adams
Republican
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
“Republican simplicity”
 Dress, manners
 Limited federal government
 Slashed spending
Barbary Coast
From the Halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea…”
- Marines’ Hymn
Philadelphia
Barbary Coast War
Commodore Stephen Decatur
Louisiana Territory
New Orleans
James Monroe
Robert Livingston
Pierre Du Pont De Nemours
Louisiana Purchase
3¢ per acre
"We have lived long, but this is the noblest
work of our whole lives...From this day the
United States take their place among the
powers of the first rank.“
- Robert Livingston
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Sacajawea
Neutrality
“…peace, commerce, and honest
friendship with all nations, entangling
alliances with none.”
- Th. Jefferson, 1801
Napoleonic Wars, 1803-1815
Napoleon Bonaparte
1799
1804
“impressment”
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair, 1807
Embargo Act, 1807
 “commercial warfare”
 “embargo” = prohibition
No trade with England or France
Election of 1808
James Madison
War of 1812
 Congressional “war hawks”
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
War of 1812
 commercial naval warfare
 Merchant ships
 blockade & raids
 Atlantic – Gulf of Mexico
 frontier
 Border with Canada
 Great Lakes
 Detroit
August 1812
 Battle of Lake Erie
Sept 1813
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
 Washington, DC
August 1814
 Baltimore – Fort McHenry
Sept 1814
“…the rockets red glare,
the bombs bursting in
air…”
Francis Scott Key
Southern frontier
 Creek War, 1814
Andrew Jackson
Horseshoe Bend
Treaty of Ghent - Dec, 1814
Treaty of Ghent - Dec, 1814
No territorial gains/losses
Prisoner exchanges
Compensation for slaves
Ships/crews returned
Growth &
Expansion