American History The Election of 1796 Federalist put forth Adams DemRepublicans put forth Jefferson Not decided by p opular vote Votes 7168 Adams President Jefferson VicePresident John Adams ID: 616375
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John Adam’s Administration
American HistorySlide2
The Election of 1796
Federalist put forth Adams
Dem.Republicans
put forth JeffersonNot decided by popular voteVotes: 71-68Adams, PresidentJefferson, Vice-President
John AdamsSlide3
Quasi-War with France: XYZ Affair
1798 - Adams send a special envoy to France to ease tensions from U.S.-British agreements.
E
nvoy was asked to pay $250,000 in order to speak with the French Foreign Minister Talleyrand.
Envoy refuses, tells Federalist Congress, which immediately suspended all commercial ties to France, empowered American ships to seize armed French vessels, and embarked on the expansion of the U.S. military.
TalleyrandSlide4
Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798
Required a 14-year naturalization period
Empowered the President to deport any “suspicious” aliens
Broad definition of seditionSlide5
“If some means are not adopted to prevent the indiscriminate admission of wild Irishmen and others to the right of suffrage, there will soon be an end to liberty and property…I do not wish to invite hordes of wild Irishmen, nor the turbulent and disorderly of all parts of the world, to come here with a view to disturb our tranquility, after having succeeded in the overthrow of their own Governments.”
-1797
Harrison Gray Otis
(Mass.)Slide6
Image from
Harper’s New Month Magazine
Twenty-five prosecutions eventually brought under the Sedition Act.
All against Democratic Republicans.
Ten men were convicted, but the convicted men were seen as martyrs for the Democratic Republican cause.Slide7
Interposition and Nullification
Virginia and Kentucky declare
the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional
The VA Resolution was authored by James Madison, while the KY Resolution was authored by Thomas Jefferson.Slide8
Judiciary Act of 1801
Gave out-going President Adams the power to expand the federal judiciary
Appointed 16 new judges; 42 new justices of the peace, and scores of attorneys, clerks, and marshals—all of whom were FederalistsSlide9
The Presidential Election of 1800
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Power transferred peaceably.Slide10
Thomas Jefferson’s Administration
American HistorySlide11
The Louisiana Purchase (1803)
In 1803, the U.S. bought the Louisiana territory from France for $15
million.
The terms of the agreement were negotiated by Robert Livingston.
Robert LivingstonSlide12
Between 1804 and 1806, the Louisiana territory was surveyed by an expedition under the leadership of U.S. Captain
Meriweather
Lewis and William Clark.Slide13Slide14
The Burr Conspiracy
Aaron Burr
Jefferson’s VP during
his first term.
July
11, 1804, Aaron Burr
kills
Alexander Hamilton in a duel in Weehawken, NJ
.
Acquitted
1807
,
Burr
charged with treason after the Jefferson administration learned that he has raised an army of several thousand men in
Louisiana.
AcquittedSlide15
Marbury
v.
Madison
(1803) Established the basis for
judicial reviewCourts can determine the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress.
William
MarburySlide16
War with North African Mediterranean States
In 1801, President Jefferson authorized a congressional appropriation of $146,000 for
warships
to secure U.S. commerce and trade interests in the Mediterranean Seas.U
ses
financial surplus inherited
from
Federalist administrations.
E
xtremely
costly for the Jefferson administration
.
The Burning of the Philadelphia
by Edward Moran, 1897