Today’s Topics
• Review
• Jeffersonian Republic
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The Constitutional Convention
This painting of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 by an unknown artist
shows George Washington presiding. Because the convention met in
secrecy, the artist used his imagination to paint the scene.
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Independence National Historical Park
– Philadelphia Convention Summer of 1787
• 2 groups: Nationalists versus localists
• Constitution is finished on September 17, 1787, written mostly by James
Madison
• Electoral College: a group of people chosen by states
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Struggle over Ratification
Federalist, support the Constitution
Anti-Federalist
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U.S. Constitution 1787
Argentina Constitution 1853, 1860, 1866, 1898, 1949, 1957
Australia 1900
Brazil, seven constitutions, 1988
Canada 1982
China, 1954, 1975, 1978, 1982
France 1791, 1958
Germany 1949
Japan ,1947
Mexico 1824, 1835, 1917
Spain 1978
Jefferson’s Article
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read, discuss, write
When was it written? Who wrote it?
Is it a primary source or a secondary source?
What is the discovery?
What is the evidence based on?
What is the controversy?
George Washington’s Presidency
1789-1797
A colorful image from around the time of the War
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– Washington Presidency 1789-1797
– French Revolution 1789-1799
• War in Europe France v.s England
– Americans divided on foreign policy
– Edmond Genet, French diplomat
– 1793 Washington declares neutrality
– Relations with Great Britain
• Violation of Treaty of Paris
• English trade with Native Americans and support their
resistance to U.S.
• Seizure of U.S. ships and cargos, and the impressing of
sailor
• Jay’s Treaty
– No future plans to stop the seizures and the
impressments of Americans
– Avoided war
– Spain
• 1. American access to New Orleans
• 2. Boundary dispute in southeast
– Thomas Pinckney
• Treaty of San Lorenzo (Pinckney’s Treaty)
– 1. Granted Americans free access to New Orleans
– 2. 31 Parallel = U.S. boundary with Spanish Florida
Washington’s Farewell Address 1796
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In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious
concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by
geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence
designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local
interests and views. One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular
districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield
yourselves too much against the jealousies and heartburnings which spring from these
misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound
together by fraternal affection. The inhabitants of our Western country have lately had a
useful lesson on this head; they have seen, in the negotiation by the Executive, and in the
unanimous ratification by the Senate, of the treaty with Spain, and in the universal
satisfaction at that event, throughout the United States, a decisive proof how unfounded
were the suspicions propagated among them of a policy in the General Government and in
the Atlantic States unfriendly to their interests in regard to the Mississippi; they have been
witnesses to the formation of two treaties, that with Great Britain, and that with Spain,
which secure to them everything they could desire, in respect to our foreign relations,
towards confirming their prosperity. Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation
of these advantages on the Union by which they were procured ? Will they not henceforth
be deaf to those advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their brethren and
connect them with aliens?
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– Ideological Confrontations
• The rise of political parties
– Federalist
– Democratic-Republicans
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–XYZ Affair
• Americans delegation asked to pay a
$250,000 to meet with the French
minister
• Anti-French sentiment spreads in the
U.S. and backlash against the
Democratic-Republicans
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– Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798
• Aimed at foreigners, who support Democratic-Republicans
– President could expel any foreigner consider a danger to the
nation
– Foreigners could be jailed or deported during wartime
– Residency for citizenship increased 5 years to 14 years
• Sedition Act
– Most controversial
» Limits free speech: illegal to criticize government or
president
» 4 out of 5 Democratic-Republican newspaper charged
with sedition
– Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions 1798
• Opposition to Sedition Act
• States could judge the constitutionality of the laws passed by
Congress
• States could nullify laws considered unconstitutional
– Election of 1800
Haiti Revolution
Barbary Wars in North Africa
– Louisiana Purchase 1803 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY4zLkFry14
• It removes a major European power from the U.S. western border
• Gave U.S. control of New Orleans and Mississippi River
– Lewis & Clark Expedition 1804-1806
• 50 members in the expedition, soldiers, civilians, frontiersmen
• Lewis & Clark
• Sacajawea, Shoshone Indian, guide & interpreter
• Stimulated interest in the West
– Foreign Affairs
• U.K and France seize U.S. ships
• Chesapeake-Leopard Affair (1807)
• Embargo of 1807
– Prohibits American ships from carrying exports abroad
– James Madison (1808-1816)
• Dolly Madison
• Non-Intercourse Act 1809, trade with all nations except France and
UK
• Congress taken over by war hawks
– Congress Votes for War of 1812 (June 1 1812)
• U.K. arming Native Americans
• Impressments of Americans by the British
• Violation of U.S. neutral rights
Map 8.3 The War of 1812.
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition
Copyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & Company
British Sacking Washington, 1814
British Sacking Washington, 1814
Thinking that the British would attack Baltimore, the government failed to provide an adequate
defense of Washington. On August 25, 1814, after their victory at Bladensburg, the British
entered Washington unopposed, "for the barbarous purpose of destroying the city," confessed a
British officer. After setting much of the city ablaze, the British withdrew on August 26 and
President Madison returned the following day. (Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown
University Library)
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
– Treaty of Ghent 1814
• Peace treaty, restores prewar status quo
– Battle of New Orleans 1815
• Andrew Jackson
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70SwSmrJIvQ
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– Hartford Convention 1814
• Decline of the Federalist Party
– Era of Good Feelings 1817-1824