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