Chapter 11
The Triumphs and Travails of the JeffersonianRepublic
1800-1812
Questions:
1. Why was the election of 1800 so critical and what two parties squared off against each other? (p. 211)
2. What did the Federalists under Adams fight for and what did the Jeffersonian opponents fight for? (p. 211)
3. What did the Jeffersonian party learn while in power? (p. 211)
4. Who split from Adams and why? (p. 211)
5. What was the most damaging blow to the Federalists? What is the book referring to when it states an all-dressed-up-
but-no-place-to-go-feeling? (p. 212)
6. Who were John Adam’s Jackasses? Who was known as the “Father of the Navy?” (p. 212)
7. How did the Federalists deflect the negative attention? What attacks were waged against Jefferson? (p. 212)
8. What was the result of the 1800 election? What state traded allegiance that gave the election to Jefferson? Who
helped secure this state? (p. 214)
9. How did the three-fifths clause help Jefferson win the election? How did the North react? (p. 214)
10. How did the deadlock occur within the Electoral College? Who was tied? (p. 214)
11. Who broke the tie? Who controlled the House and who did they prefer as president? (P. 214)
12. How did Jefferson finally win? (p. 214)
13. Who was the last Federalist president? (p. 214)
14. According to Jefferson, how was the election of 1800 a “revolution” comparable to 1776? (p. 215)
15. What else was revolutionary about the 1800 election? (p. 215)
16. Why did Jefferson stroll by foot to the Capital for his inauguration? (p. 216)
17. What was the basic message of his inaugural speech? How did he try to ingratiate Federalists? (p. 216)
18. How did Washington D.C suit the Jeffersonian Republicans and how did pell-mell describe their character? (p. 216)
19. How is Jefferson a man of contrast and often compelled by an evil twin? (p. 216-217)
20. How did Jefferson show moderation when his party ascended to the Presidency? (p. 217)
21. In what setting was Jefferson an able politician? What was the glue that held the Jeffersonian Republicans together?
What happened as the Federalists faded? (p. 217)
22. What did Jefferson do for the citizens punished under the Sedition Acts? How did he change the naturalization law?
(p. 218)
23. What was the sole feature of Hamilton’s financial system that Jefferson eliminated? Why? How did this affect the
economy? (p. 218)
24. Who was Albert Gallatin? What were his views and Jefferson’s view on the national debt?
25. How did Jefferson’s moderation further give credence to the claim the election of 1800 was a revolution? (p. 218)
26. What was the Judiciary Act of 1801 and who passed it? Who were the “midnight judges?” (p. 218)
27. How did the Jeffersonian republicans view the Judiciary Act of 1801? (p. 218)
28. Who was John Marshall and what role did he serve in the Supreme Court? Why is he described as the “Ghost of
Alexander Hamilton?” (p. 218)
29. What happened in the case of William Marbury? How did Marshall judge the case? Why is Marbury v. Madison
(1803) such a monumental case in the history of the United States and the Supreme Court? (p. 218-219)
30. What was one of Jefferson’s first actions as President? Was it a money issue? How did Jefferson view war? (p.
219)
31. What did the Pasha of Tripoli do in 1801? How did this crisis challenge Jefferson? What was the price of the treaty
signed in 1805? (p. 220)
32. What type of boats fascinated Jefferson? What was the “mosquito fleet?” How far inland was one of these boats
deposited during a hurricane in South Carolina? (p. 220)
33. How did Napoleon get Louisiana from the Spanish? What did the Spaniards refuse the Americans in New Orleans
in 1802? What treaty did this violate and how did the citizens on the frontiers react? (p. 220-221)
34. Why did the idea of Louisiana being in the hands of the French cause problems for Jefferson? (p. 221)
35. What were James Madison and Robert R. Livingston instructed to do in 1803? What role was Britain to play in all
this? (p. 221)
36. What are the two reasons why at the last second Napoleon decided to sell all of Louisiana? (p. 221)
37. How much did Livingston acquire Louisiana for? When was the treaty signed? What does it mean by the phrase,
“They had bought a wilderness to get a city?” (p. 222)
38. How did the Louisiana Purchase show the two sides of Thomas Jefferson? How many square miles did the United
States obtain? What was the cost per acre?
39. In what ways was Jefferson’s purchase epochal? How did Jefferson envision this land? (p. 222)
40. What policy was used in regards to the people who came with the Louisiana Purchase? How is this concept still
present in Louisiana today? (p. 222)
41. How did the purchase also highlight Washington’s idea of isolationism and avoiding entangling alliances? (p. 222)
42. Who were Meriwether Lewis and Lewis Clark? Who helped them? What was gained from their explorations?
(p. 222-223)
43. What overland trail did Lewis and Clark discover? Where did Pike explore? (p. 224)
44. What fears did Aaron Burr provoke in regards to the Louisiana Purchase? What did he plot to do? Who did he
challenge to a duel? Why? What happened to Hamilton? (p. 224-25) (Does anyone else find this crazy?)
45. What did Burr turn his attention to after killing Hamilton? Who was James Wilkinson? What did he and Burr plan
to do? (p.225)
46. How did Chief Justice John Marshall rule in the case? What did Burr try to do next? (p. 225)
47. Who won the election of 1804? What was the electoral count? (p. 225)
48. How did the war between France and Britain further cause problems for Jefferson? (p. 226) (Is anyone sick of the
British and French yet?)
49. What is impressment? How many American men were forced into impressment between 1808 and1811? (p. 226)
50. What happened in the Chesapeake Incident? (p. 226)
51. What decision does Jefferson make to keep the United States out of war? (p. 226)
52. What did the Embargo Act of 1807 state? What policy of Jefferson’s does this embody? What effect did the
embargo have on the American economy? (p. 226)
53. What happened in 1808 in regards to the embargo? How did Jefferson respond? How was this contradictory to the
revolutionary Jefferson? (p. 227)
54. How did the Federalist Party react to the embargo? New England? (p. 227)
55. When was the embargo finally lifted? What was the Non-Intercourse Act? (p. 227)
56. Why did the embargo fail (3 reasons)? (p. 228)
57. What positive affect did the embargo have on the burgeoning industry of the north? (p. 227)
58. Who was the 4th president? Describe him. (p. 227)
59. What was Macon’s Bill No. 2? How did Napoleon respond? What gamble did Madison make? Was his gamble
successful? (p. 229)
60. Who were the “war hawks?” Where were many of them from? What were they weary of? (p. 229)
61. Who were Tecumseh and “the Prophet?” What did they decide to do? (p. 230)
62. Who attacked Tecumseh’s army in the fall of 1811? Who won the battle of Tippecanoe? (p. 231)
63. What happened to Tecumseh and the dream of Indian Confederacy? (p. 231)
64. What was the war hawks chant? In the end, why did Madison choose war with Britain? When was war declared?
What did the votes represent? (p. 231)
65. Who supported the war and who did not? Why were the Federalists so against the war, especially in New England?
Why did America have to fight two wars? (p. 232)
EQ
Based on the story you read in Chapters 11, summarize—in your own words—where we’re at in the American Narrative that runs from 1491 to now.
+Step back and think BIG PICTURE:
How did the action in this reading take the narrative in new and/or familiar directions?
+Just 3-5 sentences, but make them accurate.
+Think Beginning, Middle, . . . and don’t forget the END!