The Jefferson Era

Beginning of the New Semester What is coming up… 7th grade iLEAP!! iLEAP review packet

Grade 7 ileap Social Studies Assessment Structure

Bellringer…sort of Place the following events in order (timeline) and add a brief description of the significance of each The Battle of Yorktown United States Constitution written French and Indian War Pilgrims sign Mayflower Compact The Battles of Lexington and Concord Navigation Acts passed to support system of Mercantilism George Washington elected to presidency The Declaration of Independence drafted and signed The Stamp Act passed The Intolerable Acts passed Articles of Confederation written

Events in order… Pilgrims sign Mayflower Compact Navigation Acts passed to support system of Mercantilism French and Indian War The Stamp Act passed The Intolerable Acts passed The Declaration of Independence drafted and signed The Battles of Lexington and Concord The Battle of Yorktown Articles of Confederation written United States Constitution written George Washington elected to presidency

Now What…The Election of 1800 Who are the political parties? Who are the candidates? Who do you want to win???

Election Posters Partner Activity Each group will be assigned to either the Federalist Party of the Democratic- Republican Party You will be creating a campaign poster for the candidates from your political party Poster should include: Name of your party Names of your candidate(s) Reasons your candidate(s) should be elected Reasons why your opponent should not be elected A picture to go along with your poster, and COLOR!

Winner…? Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr each received 73 votes, so who won? Vote went to the House of Representatives, where it also tied 36 votes later, Thomas Jefferson was elected to the Presidency of the United States How to fix this problem? Twelfth Amendment – this amendment created a separate ballot for president and vice president

Significance of the election of 1800? 12th Amendment And… First time political power in the US had peacefully changed from one party to another

Marbury v. Madison Recap – Judiciary Act of 1789 Created the three levels of federal courts and defined their powers and relationship to the state courts Democratic-Republicans controlled the Presidency and Congress, but the Federalists still controlled the Judiciary Adams had appointed several judges at end of term (“midnight judges”) Jefferson and his Secretary of State, James Madison, refused to accept some of the appointments William Marbury sued Madison, asking the Supreme Court to enforce the appointment by Adams

Marbury v. Madison John Marshall, the Chief Justice of the United States, wrote the US Supreme Court Decision for the case Marshall stated that Jefferson should have honored the appointments, but the court had no power over Jefferson in this manner because the Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconstitutional. Marbury v. Madison did several things Avoided confrontation between Executive and Judiciary Strengthened the Supreme Court Established the court’s power of Judicial Review – the power to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.

Verbal Recap….

Homework… Read Sections 11.7 and 11.8 from History Alive!