Hamilton Burr duel

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Hamilton Burr duel

• Hamiltons son Philip dies in a duel in 1801
• Hamilton fears Burr trying to gain the Governors
  office in New York and works to keep him from the
  position
• Burr loses and challenges Hamilton to a duel
• Hamilton accepts

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Hamilton Burr duel

• July 11, 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey
• Both fire a .56 caliber dueling pistol
• Hamilton is mortally wounded and dies the next day

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Foreign Affairs issues

• Embargo Act 1807
• French, British and Spanish still preying on
  American shipping
• impressment

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Barbary Pirates

• Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli
• Pirates operate under the approval of their
  respective governments
• Americans held for ransom
• Muslims expected tribute paid for not attacking
  American ships
• The U.S. is forced to bulk up its navy in the
  face of this threat

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Barbary Pirates

• The USS Philadelphia during the first Barbary War

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Chesapeake Affair

• Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
• June, 1807
• Leopard captain wanted to board the Chesapeake to
  look for deserters from the British navy
• The Chesapeake refused and the Leopard opened
  fire
• This is later considered a cause of the War of
  1812

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Embargo Act-1807

• Napoleon orders the Continental System to squeeze
  out Britain from European trade
• British issue Orders in Council negating neutral
  shipping

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Embargo Act 1807

• Jefferson wants to show Britain and France that
  they need American neutral shipping
• He bans American ships from foreign ports and
  foreign trade coming and going
• Act is passed late Dec. 1807

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Embargo Act-1807

• American exports drop from 108 million to 22
  million
• The Embargo Act is ruthlessly enforced as a means
  of using diplomacy to deal with Britain and
  France
• It is disastrous to the American economy and will
  be repealed after 14 monthsjust 3 days before
  Jeffersons retirement

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Election of 1808

• Jefferson decides to maintain Washingtons two
  term precedent
• His chosen successor is his Sec. of State, James
  Madison
• Other Democratic-Republicans fear that Madison
  does not have enough experience to be President

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• James Madison wins the election
• Defeats Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
• George Clinton remains Vice President

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Election of 1808
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Presidency of James Madison

• Allowed charter of the bank of the U.S. to expire

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Congressional election of 1810

• War Hawks come to Congress
• Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Felix Grundy
• Most War Hawks came from the agrarian South and
  West who had been negatively affected by the
  Embargo Act

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War Hawks

• Anger still exists in the Northwest and lower
  Ohio River Valley about the British interference
  and their presence in Canada
• Maritime and Indian issues are the key

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Tecumseh

• Shawnee Indian leader forms an Indian confederacy
• U.S. defeats Indians at Battle of Tippecanoe
• William Henry Harrison

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War of 1812

• British interference in American desire to trade
  with France
• Impressment of U.S. citizens into the Royal Navy
• British military support for American Indians

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War of 1812

• War fought in three theatres
• In the Atlantic Ocean
• Along the American coastline
• In the Canadian theatre

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Major Battles of The War of 1812
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War of 1812

• Congress votes for Mr. Madisons War on June
  18, 1812

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War of 1812

• U.S. attempts 3 invasion of Canada
• All fail
• USS Constitution (Old Ironside) defeats the
  British on the Atlantic
• Battle of Yorkthe U.S. defeats British and burn
  York the British will later repay by burning
  Washington D.C. (4/1813)

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War of 1812

• Battle of Lake Erie (9/1813)
• British stopped in the Great Lakes by Capt.
  Oliver Hazard Perry
• Battle of Thames (10/1813) Tecumseh is killed in
  the battle the Indian confederacy collapses

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Great Lakes battles of War of 1812