Thomas Jefferson

As the winner of the Presidential Election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson was viewed as the best fit candidate for the Presidency spot. In spite of the long and hard fought battle between him and Arron Burr, he still managed to gain enough electoral votes to bring him out on top. Jefferson served two terms as President. Instead of a strong Central government, he had other ideas and plans of what he wanted the government to be like. Jefferson's plans to have an agrarian government was his way of saying that a simple government is what would be best for a Republic. In Jefferson's two term Presidency, he would have good days and bad days but would still manage a way to bring himself and the United States out of International, ddomestic, and internal affairs.
In Jefferson's first term as President, everything seemed to be going great. Although there was no where in the Constitution that stated Jefferson could buy land, it was still a big achievement for the United States.When Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for only $15 million, the U.S. inherited a huge piece of land that made it whole. After buying the Louisiana Territory, Jefferson sent two men to navigate the territory and come back with information about the land that would make people start to migrate west.
In his second term as President of the United States, everything started to go wrong. With the Louisiana Purchase came more problems with Britain and France. With no navy to stop Britain and France from seizing American merchant ships the U.S. was in desperate need for help. The events that got out of control when Britain tried to stop lucrative trade between France and the U.S. fr were the Essex decision, Leopard-Chesapeake Incident, Orders in council, Berlin Decree, and Milan Decree. These events began to get out of control because Britain, who now controlled most of the sea was into a conflict with France.
Jefferson was so furious when these events happened that he put into place several Acts he thought would hurt Britain much more than it would hurt the U.S..Thses Acts were theNonintercourse(1806)- Stopped British importation, Embargo(1807)- Hurt the U.S. more than it hurt Britain, Nonintercourse(1809)- Opened trade to France and Britain, and Macon's Bill No.2- Replaced Nonintercourse Act. Many of these Acts did not effect Britain and its trade because Jefferson did not think it through clearly. The Embargo Act ended up hurting the U.S. more than hurting our allies because it prohibited all foreign traded, which stopped all counties from trading with the United States.
From all of the events that happened in the eight years that Thomas Jefferson had been President all happened to better the United States. Although Britain tried hard to make this country fail, Jefferson tried harder to make this country succeed and it did. From the Louisiana Purchase to the end of the Acts that had been set into place by Jefferson the U.S. was still successful at the end. Jefferson had managed to get his country out of many affairs that to place while he was in office.

Articles of Confederation

In June of 1776, the Second Continental Congress formed a government called the Articles of Confederation. They hoped that this government would be in the favor of American independence. Unexpectedly problems began to start with this government. The Articles were insufficent for the newly developed America. The three main features of the Aricle were foreign affairs, domestic affairs and features of the government under the AOC. The Articles of Confederation began to unravel in terms of being a complete and effective government and having too many weaknesses that brought it to its end.