Transcript 12Jefferson`s Presidency

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1. Jefferson: 1801 to 1809
• VP: Aaron Burr
• The Revolution of 1800
• peaceful transfer of power
• Jeffersonian Democracy
2. Marbury vs. Madison, 1803
• Midnight appointments of Adams.
• Chief Justice John Marshall
• Judicial Review
• Power of Supreme Court to declare a
law unconstitutional
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3. Jefferson’s Achievements:
•Secured westward expansion
•Louisiana Purchase
•Lewis and Clark
4. Defends our neutrality---freedom of the seas
•Barbary Pirate War—1805
•France vs Britain
•Chesapeake Affair—1807
•Embargo Act—1808 to 1809
•Economic coercion
5. Hamilton vs. Burr
•Born in Virginia
•Graduate of William and
Mary College
•A practicing lawyer and
member of Virginia’s House of
Burgesses
•Father of the DOI
•Secretary of State under
President Washington
•Vice President under Adams
•Owned 200 slaves
ELECTION OF 1800
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Jefferson defeats Adams in
the Electoral College 73-65.
Problem: Jefferson & Burr
received 73 votes each and
both were DemocraticRepublicans
Therefore election decided by
House of Representatives
•Aaron Burr (1756-1836)
•Born in Newark N.J.
•Fought with the continental
Army in the Revolutionary
war.
•A practicing lawyer in New
York City against Hamilton
•Vice President of the United
States (1801-1805).
•Kills Alexander Hamilton in a
duel
•Involved in the Burr
Conspiracy
Notes1
1. Jefferson: 1801 to 1809
• VP: Aaron Burr
• The Revolution of 1800
John S. Adams
Federalist
Thomas Jefferson
Democratic/Republican
Significance of Election of 1800
• peaceful transfer of power from one
political party to another
• “revolutionary” achievement
•Many historians look at this time period as
the beginning of the true democracy.
•Champion for the common man
•Believed education would prepare them for
participation in government…..
•For now, educated should rule…
•Believed National Government became too
powerful during Adam’s Presidency
•Kept most Federalist programs. WHY?
•Washington/Adams laid a solid foundation for USA.
•Pardoned those arrested with Sedition Act
•Repealed the Whiskey tax
•Kept Hamilton’s financial policies—BUS
•Eliminated Alien Act
Jeffersonian
democracy
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3. Marbury vs. Madison, 1803
• Midnight appointments of Adams.
• Chief Justice John Marshall
• Judicial Review
• Power of Supreme Court to declare a
law unconstitutional
SCAPP (Di) - - -
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2. Jefferson’s Achievements:
•Secured westward expansion
•Louisiana Purchase
Spanish Land
1800
•Great Britain
after the
Revolution.
•United States
after War
•Spanish land
after Revolution
New Orleans
French Land in
1801
•Great Britain
after the
Revolution.
•United States
after War
•Spanish land
New Orleans
•1800, France acquired Spanish Louisiana & New Orleans
•Because of pressure from the west and national security
threats, Jefferson offered to buy New Orleans from France
•Offered Napoleon $10 million to buy New Orleans
•If sale fails, instructed to seek alliance with England
French Land in
1801
•Great Britain
after the
Revolution.
•United States
after War
•Spanish land
New Orleans
Louisiana
purchase
•Since Napoleon was at war with
Great Britain he offered entire
Louisiana Territory to US for $15
million
•Needed the money for his war
with Great Britain
•Jefferson purchased Louisiana
Territory for $15 million, about 3
cents an acre
•Doubled the size of the US
•Jefferson’s greatest
accomplishment
•Why? Didn’t fight a war, no
blood shed.