1809 - 1817 1810 – Mexican Revolution begins. An eleven year
fight for Mexico's independence from Spain. Mining, ranching and
missions prosper and Spanish troops continue the long battle
with the Apache. James Madison was born in Virginia in 1751. He
graduated from Princeton and was active in Virginia politics and
in the Continental Congress. He was an influential member of the
Along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, he wrote the
Federalist Papers. President Jefferson appointed James Madison
as his Secretary of State Dolley Payne Madison, born in 1768, is
one of the best known and best loved of the First Ladies. She
grew up in Philadelphia in the strict discipline of the Society
of Friends. She was a young widow with one son in 1794, when she
married James Madison, who was 17 years older than she. Theirs
was a happy marriage, though they had no children. In 1809
President James Madison succeeded Jefferson as president.
Madison was re- elected in 1812. Tensions with Britain
culminated in the war of 1812 fo