President:
Pres: Thomas Jefferson
Pres: James Madison elected over Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, George Clinton, and James Monroe
General
- Finance: Embargo Act softened to Non-Intercourse Act
- Law: Ban on importation of African slaves (though a quarter million are imported illegally before slavery ends)
- Natives: Religious revival among Indians
Tecumseh forced west, starts Indian national movement
East
- General: New England merchants suffer under Embargo Act
South
- Louisiana: Theatre St. Philippe in New Orleans opened