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A Growing NationAmerican Adolescence
The Election of 1800
Thomas Jefferson V.S. John Adams
Both parties tossed wild charges at one another
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Drl8fpWTKo
Jefferson won by 8 electoral votes
For the first time America witnessed a peaceful transition of power
Federalist Party (John Adams) to the Democratic Republicans
Jeffersonian Republicanism
The people should control the government and a simple government best suits the needs of the people
An idealist (who bent the rules)A man of contradictions
A slave owner who hated slaveryAn advocate of the constitution, but ignored it at least oncePreached Frugality , but dies in debt
Marbury v. Madison
Happened herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwciUVLdSPk
The Result: Judicial ReviewThe ability of the supreme court to declare a law
The Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase
1800: Spain transfers control of the Louisiana territory to Napoleon Bonaparte
1803: Napoleon abandoned his ideas of an American empire
Napoleon sent 35,000 troops to crush a slave rebellion in Haiti.
He lost more the 24,000
America purchased the Louisiana territory for $15,000,000
That’s 828,000 square miles for only 3 cents an acre
Lewis and Clark
Introduction
What was the result:The trip cost $2,500Only one man diedGains:
Knowledge of new plants and animalsFound suitable farming lands
The War of 1812