In the Presidential election of 1800 there were two political parties going head to head - Federalists - Democratic-Republicans 1

1 FEDERALISTSDEMOCRATIC- REPUBLICANS JOHN ADAMS THOMAS JEFFERSON

The Federalists were afraid radicals were getting ready to ruin the United States RADICAL – people who take extreme political positions 2

Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr were tied with 73 electoral college votes 3

The House voted to break the tie and it stayed tied until the 36 th vote in which Jefferson was elected President 4

Jefferson’s many talents and interests included: LAWYER 5

ARCHITECTURE INVENTOR 5

MUSIC HORSEMAN 5

SCIENTIST READING 5

Jefferson wanted a calm America 6 Thought U.S. would be better off with a nation of farmers

Jefferson wanted to make government smaller – less taxes, less federal employees, less government programs 7

JOHN MARSHALL – a Federalist appointed Supreme Court judge, was judge for over 30 years 8

MARBURY v. MADISON – was a case that established the concept of “judicial review” 9

JUDICIAL REVIEW – means the Supreme Court has the final say in interpreting the Constitution 10