Republicans take Office

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Republicans take Office

• Jefferson, Madison and the War of 1812

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Jeffersons Presidency

• 1. Whos the president?
• Thomas Jefferson
• Aaron Burr
• 2. Dealings with pirates
• Tripoli
• 3. Louisiana Purchase
• why it was available
• France
• what it did for US territory
• 4. Burr (in Jeffersons side) again
• Confederacies and schemes
• Alexander Hamilton

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Leading to War

• 1. Jeffersons embargo
• neutrality on the seas
• France and Britain
• impressment
• who it hurt
• 2. The declaration
• War Hawks
• Henry Clay
• Native involvement

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Problems with Prosecution

• 1. Problems with throwing a war
• 2. 1812
• Canada
• militia
• naval actions
• 3. 1813
• Perry on the Great Lakes
• Andrew Jackson and the Creek Indians
• 4. 1814
• financing the war
• Washington DC
• Hartford Convention
• Battle of Baltimore/ Star Spangled Banner

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Americas Tie

• 1. Inner Turmoil
• DeWitt Clinton
• Madison as war leader
• New England
• 2. Results of war
• Federalists
• military leadership
• change in Native American relations
• European respect
• win or loss?

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Discussion Question

• Do we make our historical figures into heroes?
  Can we hero-worship them and still admit they
  had faults and weaknesses?
• (E.g. George Washington and the cherry tree
  Thomas Jefferson and slavery)