1. U.S. Infancy Aim: Explain the events of the election of 1800.
Do Now: Why did Washington and Adams stay neutral?

2. U.S. Infancy Aim: How did Jefferson apply his views to the presidency?
Do Now: How did Jefferson win the election of 1800?

3. Election of 1800 Electoral College
John Adams – 65 votes
Thomas Jefferson – 73 votes
Aaron Burr – 73 votes
Constitution says House of Rep. chooses pres.
Hamilton urges Representatives to vote for Jefferson
Did not trust Burr
Jefferson is elected

4. Hamilton-Burr Duel Hamilton thought Burr was dangerous for US
Helped Jefferson win presidency
Worked against Burr in a NY election
Burr lost
Challenged Hamilton to a duel
Hamilton shot and dies next day (1804)

5. Election of 1800
12th Amendment – Vice-President is no longer the runner up in the electoral college
1804
VP is elected on the same ballot as President

6. Jefferson’s Philosophy
Wanted a country of small, independent farmers
Uphold morals and democracy
Democratic-Republican
Federal government should have less power
Congress repeals Alien and Sedition Acts
Ends whiskey tax
Reduced size of military

7. U.S. Infancy
Aim: How was the Louisiana Purchase significant to US history?
Do Now: What established judicial review? What is judicial review?

8. Marbury v. Madison
“midnight judges” who were Federalist appointed by Adams at end of his presidency
Marbury appointed as one of “midnight judges”
Sec. of State Madison refuses to accept Marbury
Marbury sues Madison
*Judicial review* – Supreme Court can review a law and judge it to be unconstitutional

9. The Louisiana Territory
In the hands of Spain in 1800
Allowed U.S. to use the Mississippi River
Farmers ship goods
Trade in New Orleans
Vital to farmers’ economic survival

10. Change in the Territory
1802 – Spain does not allow U.S. goods to move into or past New Orleans
Spain cedes (gives) Louisiana Territory to France
Jefferson sends minister to France
Offer $10 million for New Orleans and West Florida

12. Louisiana Purchase France willing to sell all of Louisiana Territory
Agreed on $15 million for purchase
Benefits of territory
Cheap land (3 cents an acre)
*Doubled size of country*
U.S. control of Mississippi

13. Purchase Constitutionality?
Was the purchasing of land by the President legal under the Constitution?
By what authority could Jefferson justify the Louisiana Purchase?
Government’s treaty making powers
Senate approval in 1803
Too good of an opportunity to pass up

14. Lewis and Clark Expedition
Gather information about new land
Plants, Animals, Future fort locations
Find a Northwest Passage?
Dangers – Native Americans, weather, animals

15. Lewis and Clark Expedition
Meriwether Lewis
William Clark
Detailed journal accounts
Crew of 45 men
River men
Gunsmiths
Carpenters
Scouts
Cook

16. Lewis and Clark Expedition
Encountered many Native American groups
Sacagawea – Shoshone woman who joined the expedition as a guide
4,000 miles of traveling until reach Pacific Ocean
Spent the winter on coast of the Pacific

17. NOVEMBER 24, To make the crucial decision of where to spend the winter, the captains decide to put the matter to a vote. Clark’s slave, York, is allowed to vote – nearly 60 years before slaves in the U.S. would be freed Sacagawea, the Indian woman, votes too – more than a century before either women or Indians are granted the full rights of citizenship.