UNITED STATES HISTORY I
LECTURE OUTLINE FIVE
- THE JEFFERSONIANS IN POWER
- Was there a "root and branch" change or
- Was there a change in tone and direction?
- The Jeffersonian outlook
- agrarian mindedness
- thoughts on debt
- thoughts on spending
- thoughts on taxes
- Albert Gallatin's role in the Jeffersonian economic program
- The elections of 1802 and 1804
- "Comatose" Federalists and the 1804 Essex Junto of reactionary Federalists
- 1803 LOUISIANA PURCHASE
- Was Thomas Jefferson true to his ideals?
- Jefferson's explanation--"Empire of Liberty"
- TJ AND TROUBLES IN HIS SECOND ADMINISTRATION
- 1806 Non-Importation Act
- 1807 Embargo Act
- economic and political consequences of "O GRAB ME"
- 1809 Non-Intercourse Act
- 1810 Macon's Bill No. 2
- agrarian-minded foreign policy was unable to ease tensions with England
- THE WAR OF 1812--"MR. MADISON'S WAR"
- overview of the war's causes
- Treaty of Ghent (1814)
- Protesting the War of 1812--Federalists and the Hartford Convention
- political significance of the Federalists's protest--unable to compete politically
- The War of 1812 as a "watershed" period
- impact of the war upon Jeffersonianism
- POST-WAR "NATIONALISM"
- explanation of post-war "nationalism" or "realistic Republicanism"
- James Madison's message to Congress
- call for a Bank of the United States
- tariff
- internal improvements
- realistic "Republicanism" would address weaknesses exposed by the war
- incorporation of the Second Bank of the United States
- Tariff of 1816--first protective tariff
- Bonus Bill of 1817--a plan for internal improvements which demonstrated the incomplete nature of nationalism due to sectional jealousies and Madison's veto
- BACKDROP TO A NEW POLITICS
- Compensation Act of 1816--symbolized the shift toward a participatory, democratized politics
- ECONOMIC CHANGE AND A NEW POLITICS IN THE 1820S
- definition of democratic nationalism (two components)
- democratic nationalism's view of privilege and the proper role of central government
- factors contributing to the development of a national market economu
- how the national market economy fueled democratic nationalism
- THE PANIC OF 1819
- causes of the Panic of 1819
- psychological and political effects of the Panic
- frustrations with the Panic
- THE MISSOURI CRISIS AND THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE
- sectional crisis during an age of "nationalism"
- Tallmadge Amendment as a "can of worms"
- House and Senate positions
- Thomas Amendment
- Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820
- THE ADVENT OF A NEW POLITICS IN THE 182OS
- political efforts to alleviate the Panic of 1819
- these political efforts fueled democratic nationalism
- atmospheric changes in American politics
- institutional changes in American politics