Thomas Jefferson and Tecumseh

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Thomas Jeffersonand Tecumseh

• Constitution and Charisma in the Growth of the
  New Republic

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The Formation of the Republic

• Confederation problems and the Annapolis
  Convention.
• The Constitutional Convention.
• Virginia Plan vs. New Jersey Plan.
• The Great Compromise.
• Ratification and the Bill of Rights
• Anti-Federalism and the issues of ratification.
• The Bill of Rights ten adopted amendments and
  the rights not enumerated.
• Government formation and unfinished business.
• Washingtons election and the new executive.
• The formation of government departments and
  institutions.

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Federalism and Republicanism

• The Washington administration.
• The Cabinet and the Hamilton-Jefferson conflict.
• Hamiltonian economics and debt.
• Washingtonian foreign policy the middle
  course.
• The First Party system.
• Ideological divisions Federalist vs.
  Democratic-Republican, the press, and popular
  politics.
• The election of 1796 as a political watershed.
• Washingtons legacy and the formation of the
  Presidency.

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Tecumseh

• The state of Native affairs in the early
  Republic.
• The Miami War, the Treaty of Greenville and the
  loss of native lands to encroachment.
• Tribal divisions and unification.
• Tecumseh the leader and the man.
• Formative experience and education.
• The idea of the Confederation.
• Tecumsehs role in the Confederation and the War
  of 1812.

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Adams and Party Politics

• The election of 1796 and split administration.
• John Adams personality and the presidency.
• The fight with his Cabinet and governing ideas.
• The Quasi-war with France.
• The XYZ Affair It is, no, no, not a sixpence.
• Undeclared war and the rise of the US Army and
  Navy.
• The Alien and Sedition Acts and the Jeffersonian
  response in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves.

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Jefferson American Sphinx

• Jefferson the man.
• Informality and the democratic ideal.
• Contradiction the defining personality trait.
• Jefferson the president.
• The Revolution of 1800 and electoral problems.
• Republican finance and Albert Gallatin.
• Limited military expenditure and the reliance on
  the militia.

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Jeffersons Presidency

• Jeffersons fight with the Judicial branch.
• Marbury v. Madison and the establishment of
  judicial review.
• The Tripolitan War and American weakness.
• The Louisiana Purchase and the Burr conspiracy.
• Economic warfare with Great Britain.
• The Essex decision, the Battle of Trafalgar, and
  the Paper blockade.
• The Chesapeake incident.
• Orders, decrees, and the Embargo Act.

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The War of 1812

• Escalation to war.
• James Madison and the failure of economic
  coercion.
• Henry Clay and the War Hawks.
• Republican finance vs. needs for the Army and
  Navy.
• Fighting the war.
• Initial invasion of Canada and the failure of
  American forces.
• Naval action against the British, 1812 and after.
• The problem of the Great Lakes and American
  success.
• Crisis in 1814 and the myth of American victory.
• Status Quo Ante Bellum