Presidents
Achievements and Failures
Thomas Jefferson
Success:
- Purchased the Louisiana territory.
- Lewis and Clark.
- Increased the size of army and navy.
- Embargo act
- Let Americas trade ships be taken
- reduced the size of army and national government.
James Madison
Success:
Failure:
- he opened up the Madison university
- he allowed two new states to enter the union. Louisiana (1812) Indiana (1816)
- Treaty of Ghent
- Nationalism
- Era of good feelings
Failure:
- wanted to reduce the size of national govt.
- went to war with England
James Monroe
Success:
- Promoted national unity
- promoted nationalism
- unified the economics of the south, north, and west
- Gained FL
- Monroe Doctrine
Failures:
- sectionalism
- north and south could not agree on taxes
- Mizzou Compromise