A history of the United States . he basis of our laterclaim to the Oregon country. The journal of Lewis andClark is one of the most fascinating records of adventureever published. Before the return of Lewis and ClarkLieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike set out on a similarexpedition to the Southwest. He explored the mountainsof Colorado and marched south to the Rio Grande, wherehe fell into the hands of the Spaniards, but was escorted tothe American frontier and released. Jeffersons first administration was an unqualified successand met with such widespread approbation that he wasReelection reel
A history of the United States . he basis of our laterclaim to the Oregon country. The journal of Lewis andClark is one of the most fascinating records of adventureever published. Before the return of Lewis and ClarkLieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike set out on a similarexpedition to the Southwest. He explored the mountainsof Colorado and marched south to the Rio Grande, wherehe fell into the hands of the Spaniards, but was escorted tothe American frontier and released. Jeffersons first administration was an unqualified successand met with such widespread approbation that he wasReelection reelected with little opposition. The Federalistof Jefferson, candidates, C. C. Pinckney and Rufus King, re-^ °^ ceived only 14 electoral votes, while Jefferson and George Clinton received 162. But Jeffersons triumphswere over. His second administration was clouded by fac-tional fights in his own party and by outrageous depredationson American commerce by both England and France, whichhe was unable to prevent or to avenge. ~^w^rras. Federalists and Republicans 221 In 1800 the Republicans had been united, but now thebreach between John Randolph and Madison caused Jeffer-son much uneasiness. Randolph had begun his open attackon Madison in 1803 when he opposed a bill advocated bythe latter, which provided for the payment of the Yazooclaims. Before surrendering to the Federal governmenther claims to Mississippi,Georgia had made con-flicting grants of lands onthe Yazoo, and some ofthe claimants now triedto get Congress to com-pensate them. Randolph,who was now at theheight . of his power,poured forth the vitriolof his wrath againstMadison and other ad-vocates of the Yazoo bill,and for years preventedits passage. Madison was,however, backed by Presi-dent Jefferson. The po-litical result was thatRandolphs friend Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina,was defeated for the speakership, which he had held foryears, and Randolph was removed from the chairmanshipof the committee on ways and means.
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