Chat with AIExam 10: Republicans in Power 1800-1824
The turbulent election of 1800 stoked fears that party divisions would ruin the country.Discuss the outcome of the election and Jefferson's peaceful "revolution of 1800." Discuss some of the early challenges to his presidency that tested his resolve to keep the government small.
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Revolution of 1800: John Adams was no longer in the race once it reached the House.The contest was actually between Jefferson and his running mate,Aaron Burr.After a hard-fought congressional struggle,Jefferson's victory proved that leadership could shift in a peaceful transfer of power.Once in office,Jefferson referred to the election as a revolution in order to highlight his repudiation of Federalist practices and his cutback in military spending and taxes.Events of the early 1800s,however,often required expansive and decisive government action.
Barbary Wars: Jefferson's belief in a small military was tested in the Mediterranean Sea,where U.S.trading interests ran afoul of several states on the northern coast of Africa.The United States was paying $50,000 a year in tribute to the Barbary States for safe passage through the Mediterranean.In 1801,the monarch of Tripoli declared war on the United States for failing to increase payments,and Jefferson responded with four warships.After the USS Philadelphia ran aground,an American officer in Tunis assembled a military force and launched a surprise attack on Tripoli.The monarch negotiated a treaty that terminated the tribute.
Louisiana Purchase: In 1803,the American army took formal control of the Louisiana Territory after its purchase from France.Jefferson quickly launched four government-financed expeditions into the new territory to establish relationships with Indian tribes and determine Spanish influence and presence.The Lewis and Clark expedition successfully reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805 and returned home after establishing favorable relations with dozens of Indian tribes,in addition to gathering invaluable information on the region.
How did Congress respond to the sinking of the ship Chesapeake in June 1807?
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What did the social environment created by Madison's White House reveal about the role of women and domestic life in early American politics?
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Dolley Madison and Politics: Led by Dolley Madison,the Madisons established an open and festive social environment at the White House.Dolley hosted weekly evening parties attended by hundreds of people,including congressmen,cabinet officers,distinguished guests,foreign envoys,and all of the women associated with them.These gatherings were essential events for gaining political access,trading information,and establishing informal channels that smoothed the governing process.Dolley Madison's role in conducting such important social events reveals that although women were excluded from politics,they nevertheless participated in affairs of state through their attendance at overtly political functions.
What was the result of the Treaty of Ghent,which ended the War of 1812?
(34) A trend toward democratization gripped the states between 1800 and 1830,spurring much debate about citizenship and suffrage and the question of who constitutes "the people" in a government founded on popular sovereignty.What were the outcomes of this debate for white men? What about for white women? What explains the differences?
(33) Dolley Madison proved that elite women could be active in civic affairs and have a significant impact on American politics.Most key institutions in America proved fairly resistant to change,however,and there was little talk of "women's rights." Discuss women's status in the early 1800s and the areas where women were seeing increased opportunities.
(35) Why did congressmen from New England and some Mid-Atlantic states oppose war with Great Britain in 1812?
(37) "[T]he period has now arrived,when the United States must support their character and station among the nations of the earth,or submit to the most shameful degradation.....The mad ambition,the lust of power and commercial avarice of Great Britain,arrogating to herself the complete dominion of the ocean,and exercising over it an unbounded and lawless tyranny,have left to neutral nations an alternative only between the base surrender of their rights,and a manly vindication of them. Under the pretext of impressing British seamen ...our Citizens are wantonly snatched from their Country... ;doomed to an ignominious and slavish bondage;compelled to fight the battles of a foreign Country and often to perish in them....While this practice is continued,it is impossible for the United States to consider themselves an independent Nation....
It is known that symptoms of British hostility towards the United States have never failed to produce corresponding symptoms among those tribes [on the frontiers] ...abundant supplies of the ordinary munitions of war have been afforded by the agents of British commercial companies ...wherewith they were enabled to commence that system of savage warfare on our frontiers."
What justification does Document 2 give for waging war with Great Britain?
(40) Unlike theological seminaries that trained men for the clergy,Troy Female Seminary and Hartford Seminary prepared their female students
(43) Identify the main ideas and events that inspired Gabriel's Rebellion in Virginia in 1801.
(32) Why did the United States express concern after Spain returned Louisiana to France?
(46) When Congress declared war in 1812,the country was clearly divided along sectional lines.Discuss New England's reaction to the declaration of war,the basis of the sectional division,and continued dissatisfaction at the end of the war.
(35) How did Henry Clay come to find himself in such an influential position regarding the outcome of the presidential election of 1824? Why did he support John Quincy Adams?
(35) The politics of race produced the most divisive issue during James Monroe's term.Discuss the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and how it highlighted the country's ability to compromise as well as laid the foundation for future conflict.
(31) Which activity was open to single women in every state in the early republic?
(40) Why did Federalist Alexander Hamilton support Jefferson over Aaron Burr as the presidential election of 1800 played out in the House of Representatives?
(30) In the painting "Saving the Life of Commodore Decatur," which of the following indicates that the Tripolitan soldiers were different from the Americans? 
(41) What happened when the American government attempted to dominate the Comanche Indians?
(29) In the early nineteenth century,the Anglo-American view of women was embodied in the legal concept of feme covert,which held that
(35) Why were James Tallmadge Jr.'s amendments to the Missouri statehood bill of 1819 controversial?
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