1. THOMAS JEFFERSON
WHAT A GUY!!!

2. CHARACTER AS PRESIDENT
Good transfer of power
“We are all Federalists, we are all Republicans”
Starts precedent of sending messages to Congress

3. What TJ does to help the Common Man:
repeals the excise tax
repeals the Naturalization Act
Alien and Sedition Acts expire

4. MARBURY v. MADISON Adams creates 16 federal judgeships
When TJ becomes president, judges are not sat
John Marshall
Marbury sues Madison for his seat
Uses the 1789 Judiciary Act
Marshall:
Judiciary Act is unconstitutional
Const = Supreme Law of the Land
SC = interp Const
SC declare laws unconst or not!

5. JUDICIAL REVIEW!
ONLY THE SUPREME COURT HAS THE RIGHT TO DECLARE LAWS CONSTITUTIONAL

6. As a D-R, TJ believed in: Rights of the Common man
big on farming and agriculture
states rights
strict interp. of the Const.
France
low tariff
small military

7. REALIZES THAT THEORY DOES NOT WORK OUT IN REALITY!!!!

8. JEFFERSON’S MILITARY PROBLEMS
Army = 2500 men
Navy almost nonexistent
Barbary Pirates and Pasha of Tripoli
Tripoli unofficially declares war on the US

9. JEFFERSON’S POSITION? Pacifist noninterventionist no large military
not like to help with trade
BUT . . .?

10. REALIZES THE THEORY DOES NOT WORK IN REALITY
Sends in the small navy
begins to build more ships (smaller, faster)
begins to understand the importance of trade and defending trade routes

11. IMPACT? Sets a pattern navy gets experience for the War of 1812
get respect internationally
TJ changes a position

12. Purchasing Louisiana Can the US use the Mississippi?
Who owns land west of the Miss when TJ becomes President?
But in 1800, Napoleon
Why?
TJ sends Monroe and Livingston to Paris to buy N.O. and the Floridas
Napoleon
Wants to sell all of the Louisiana Territory for $15 million

13. What does TJ do? Does not think the US can buy it? Why not?
What does he do?
BIG CHANGE!!! Strict to Loose! Theory does not work in Reality!
April 1803

14. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PURCHASE:
Doubles the size of the US
Absolute control of the Mississippi
no more French
precedence for buying land
D-R = loose!

15. LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
Journals on soil, climate, vegetation, minerals, Indians . . .
2 years, 4 months
helped by . . .

16. SACAJAWEA

17. Meanwhile, Britain and France are at war - again!
England: Orders in Council
French decrees
British impressing again (6000 men)
who is the US angry at? Especially because of the . . .
US trades with both
England winning at sea, France winning on land, US winning in getting rich
war is at a standstill

18. CHEASEPEAKE INCIDENT(1807)
10 miles off the coast of Virginia
British want to board the ship
fires, kills 3
WAR?!!!?
No - military too weak
so . . .

19. EMBARGO ACT (1807) NO EXPORTING! Good? Bad?
See the beginning of factories in the North (what group did Jefferson like?) Theory versus Reality!
president control commerce?
Trading going on illegally with Canada
March 1809, repeal the Embargo Act
replace with the Non-intercourse Act (1809)