History 270: The United States to 1865
Spring Semester 1999 - Dr. Thomas R. Maddux
Lecture Outline
Jeffersonian Republicanism: A Noiseless Course

  1. Meaning of Federalists vs. Jeffersonian Republicans
  2. Dismantle Federalism
    1. TJ's views on government and society
    2. Debt and Taxes: $82 million, cut taxes, cut govt. -- army to 3,000, navy to six frigates, gunboats
    3. National Bank: slow death in eight years
    4. Judiciary and Federalist judges
  3. Challenges to Jefferson's Republic
    1. Louisiana and expansion: empire of liberty
    2. Challenge of European war and Napoleon
    3. Challenge of slavery
      1. Economic expansion: cotton and lower south
      2. Slave control: St. Domingo (Haiti) uprising, Gabriel revolt in Virginia 1800, free blacks
      3. Repression in north: voting, militia, legal system, jobs, separation and segregation
      4. Jefferson and s;very: "Could there be a good master?" : debts, slave sales, discipline, inferior, Sally Heming, colonization


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