Transcript Thomas Jefferson (Marbury vs. Madison Louisiana

Thomas Jefferson
 3rd president of the united states 1801-1809
 Was the vice president of the United States
 Born on April 13, 1743 Shadwell plantation, Goochland
County, Virginia
 His nickname was “Man of People”
Thomas Jefferson
 Got married on January 1st , 1772 to Martha Skelton
 Had six children one boy five girls
 Author of the Declaration of In Dependence
 Author of Virginia Statute for Religions freedom
 Father of university of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
 Believed in God and the moral teachings of Jesus
Christ and the Bible
 At age 16 he entered College of William and Mary in
Williamsburg
 Studied mathematics, philosophy, and metaphysics
 First occupation was a lawyer, involved with hundreds
of cases between 1768 and 1773
Thomas Jefferson
 Studied law with George Wythe, a later signer of the
Declaration of Independence
 Attended a local school that was run by a Scottish
minister named William Douglas
 Studied Greek, Latin, and French
Thomas Jefferson
 Died on July 4th, 1826 at age of 83
 Died of natural causes
 Died the same day as John Adams
Marbury vs. Madison
 Several federalist appointees did not receive there
commission
 Deadline March 3, 1801
 Jefferson ordered secretary of state James Madison to
with hold the commissions
Marbury vs. Madison
 Marbury one of the appointees effected by this
decision
 Marbury Sued Madison in the Supreme court
 He demanded the supreme court to give his
commission
Marbury vs. Madison
 The court stated Marbury had a right to his
commission
 Congress could not give the supreme court the power
to give Marbury his commission
 Only the constitution could
 Marbury never got his commission
The Louisiana Purchase
 Largest single purchase in the U.S history
 Included Montana, North and South Dakota,
Minnesota, Wyoming, Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas,
Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana
 Tiny bit of Texas and New Mexico
The Louisiana Purchase
 Jefferson signed a treaty with Napoleon Bonaparte that
ceded a giant amount of land to the United States
 Doubled the size of America
 Giving the country access to a very important trade
route of Mississippi and the port of new Orleans