The Federalist Era

The Logan Act was enacted in the year 1799 and it says that it forbids private citizens from engaging in unauthorized correspondence with the foreign government.

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolution states that the Alien and Sedition Acts can't be passed because they violated the constitution.

The French warship L'Insurgente is captured by the U.S.S Constellation. Napolean stops the French raids after becoming First Consul.

A law is passed to abolish slavery in the state of New York, effective 28 years later in 1827.

Former President George Washington dies in Mount Vernon, Virgiana at age 67.

In what is sometimes referred to as the "Revolution of 1800", Vice President Thomas Jefferson of the Democratic-Republican Party defeated incumbent President John Adams of the Federalist Party.

Resistance to the Alien and Sedition Acts mobilized a great deal of opposition among the electorate, resulting in Adams defeat in the 1800 election and the first Democratic-Republican presidential administration under Thomas Jefferson. This was often referred to as the "Revolution of the 1800s" this transfer of power from one party to another resistance to another was the first in American history.

When Jefferson took the office he inherited troubled relationships with the Barbary States. The Barbary States were the Ottoman Regiences of the Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, along with independent Morocco. The U.S. had treaties with all four of these states. And tension began to rise. The reason being was that the Barbary states harbored and supported the actions of pirates against American shipping vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. This war ended up lasting for 5 years. Yet, it did not completely end the acts of piracy against American vessels, but it did prove that the United States was capable of waging war, if necessary, in places far from its own shores.

John Marshall is appointed the new chief justice on February 4, 1801.

On March 4, 1801, Thomas Jefferson became the Third President of the United States following his defeat of John Adams the year before. Thomas Jefferson had been the principal author of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.