1. Focus Question: Why was the Election of 1800 so significant?
Unit: The New Nation
MYP Inquiry Question: What makes an effective leader?
How much power should government have?
Focus Activity:
Hand in HW
Blast from the Past
Homework:
1. Louisiana Purchase reading (packet pg. 5)
Focus Question: Why was the Election of 1800 so significant?
Monday, February 11th, 2019
Jefferson Mini Unit 
Reminders:
KEEP the other Unit 6 packet in your binders- you will need it after break!

2. Monday: What were the 3 reasons for European exploration?

3. Here are three of today’s worst…
Throughout world history, the transfer of political power has been marked by struggle, deception, and bloodshed. Rulers have forcefully taken power in many different countries.
Here are three of today’s worst…
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4. Kim Jong-Un
Country: North Korea
Taking over after the death of his infamous father, Kim Jong-Il, Kim Jon-Un has continued in his father’s brutal footsteps. Political opponents and their extended families are sent to prison camps for speaking out against his government.
Anyone who tries to leave North Korea and is caught faces kidnapping and torture.

5. People in prison camps are often starved to death, then have their bodies burned and disposed of, usually by other prisoners. One former prisoner mentioned a time he was so hungry that he ate, kernels of corn he found in cow dung. Currently, 200,000 people are estimated to be in North Korean prison camps.

6. Omar al-Bashir
Country: Sudan
Forcefully took over as leader of Sudan 29 years ago. His military has bombed civilians, killing untold numbers and causing hundreds of thousands to flee. The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued multiple warrants for his arrest, charging al-Bashir with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. In the Darfur region of Sudan alone, an estimated 300,000 have been killed since 2003.

9. Robert Mugabe Country: Zimbabwe
Leader of Zimbabwe for over 30 years, Mugabe has arrested and tortured anyone who dares to oppose him. One election year, he did not receive any votes in one region of the country. He then had all 20,000 people who lived in that region killed.

10. Stories of brutal beatings include orders that torturers use sticks dipped in Paraquat – a chemical used to kill weeds – to beat victims. In some cases, victims were made to actually drink the Paraquat.
Life expectancy in Zimbabwe under President Robert Mugabe fell from 62 years in 1990 to 36 years as of 2017.
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11. Transfer of power has been different in the United States…

12. Even though Trump and Obama were members of different political parties and had very different points of view about how the government should be run…

13. …the Election of 2016 proved to the world, once again, that a peaceful transition of power (from one political party to a different political party) is possible.

14. George Washington was the leader to set the precedent [example] by which political rule in America would be decided by ballots, not bullets.

15. In his first inaugural address in
1981, Ronald Reagan said: My fellow citizens: To a few of us
today, this is a solemn and most
momentous occasion; and yet,
in the history of our Nation, it is
a commonplace occurrence. The orderly transfer of authority as called for in the Constitution routinely takes place as it has for almost two centuries and few of us stop to think how unique we really are. In the eyes of many in the world, this every-4-year ceremony we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.

16. Kim-Jong Un: North Korea
Omar al-Bashir: Sudan
Robert Mugabe: Zimbabwe

17. The Election of 1800, in which John Adams (a Federalist) lost the presidential election to Thomas Jefferson (a Democratic-Republican) was the first time in human history that ballots replaced bullets in transitioning from one political party to another.

18. Election of 1800 Jefferson and Burr Thomas Jefferson
It was a peaceful transition of power from Adams (a Federalist) to Jefferson (a Democratic-Republican). Ballots replaced bullets.

22. THOMAS JEFFERSON
TRUE OR FALSE?

23. Thomas Jefferson grew up poor.

24. FALSE!
Jefferson grew up wealthy on a Virginia plantation. His landholdings totaled near 5,000 acres. To manage this vast estate, he used a plantation system which divided the land into separate "farms."

25. Jefferson was the first
President to bow to people rather than shake peoples’ hands.

26. FALSE!
Jefferson declared bowing to be too British, or too formal. He saw himself as one of the people. As a new president, Jefferson held out his right hand to his fellow countrymen.

27. Jefferson and his
wife, Martha, lived
together well into their 80s.

28. FALSE While Thomas Jefferson lived until age
83, his wife Martha died at age
33. She never saw him
become President.

29. Jefferson was never
able to attend college.

30. attended the College of William & Mary, and became a lawyer.
FALSE
Jefferson
attended the College of William & Mary, and became a lawyer.

31. Jefferson believed in a very powerful national government

32. He once said “a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”
FALSE!
He once said “a little rebellion now and then is a good thing.”

33. Jefferson’s personal library of almost 6,500 books was given to his children before he died.

34. False!
The Library of Congress purchased his 6,500 volume book collection in 1815 to replace the collection that had been burned by the British. He received $23,950 for his books.

35. Jefferson is on the nickel.

36. TRUE!

37. Jefferson wrote the Constitution

38. FALSE!
Jefferson did not even attend the Constitutional Convention. He was visiting France at the time.

39. Jefferson grew peas in
his yard at home in
Virginia so he could eat
them during the
summer months.

40. TRUE!
He grew 15
varieties of peas.

41. Jefferson died on the
same day as John
Adams.

42. TRUE
Not only did they pass away on the same day, but it was also
the 50th anniversary of the day they signed the Declaration of Independence: July 4th, 1826