1. 6.4 The Nation Expands

2. Objectives
Discuss the policy changes that the Republican Congress made during Jefferson’s first term in office.
Explain why the US purchased Louisiana from France.
Discuss what the explorers of the LA Territory accomplished
Evaluate the consequences of the LA Purchase.

3. Bellringer
What is a strict constructionist? Was Thomas Jefferson one?

4. Copy HW
Read and take notes on p using the focus questions

5. Compare/Share HW
What impact did the Marshall Court have on the power of the federal government?
What was the purpose of the Alien and Sedition Act?
Describe two differences in the beliefs of the Federalists and the Democratic Republicans?
Describe one weakness of the Articles of Confederation and explain how it was fixed by the Constitution?

6. Intro
What was Pinckney’s Treaty?

7. Policy changes made during Jefferson’s 1st term in office…
Repealed:
Whiskey Tax
Judiciary Act of 1801
Cut military spending
Reduced the size of the army and navy
Tried to pay off the national debt by reducing the size of the federal gov.

8. Why the US purchase the LA Territory
Republicans favored expansion
Need for access to the Miss. River
Spain had secretly given LA Territory to France in 1800
US feared Fr. Control would limit trade and westward expansion

9. Jefferson sent Livingston to Fr
Jefferson sent Livingston to Fr. to gain New Orleans or another port city -1801
1803 – Monroe sent – authorized to spend $10 million on New Orleans
Napoleon offered entire LA Territory for $15 million

10. LA Purchase Violated Jefferson’s strict constructionist view….
But he authorized it anyway…
NOT an example of the use of the ELASTIC CLAUSE – why?

12. Accomplishments of the LA Territory’s Explorers
Lewis and Clark Expedition/Sacagawea

13. Pike Mapped the immense territory
Brought samples of natural resources back
Increased westward expansion

14. Evaluation of Impacts of LA Purchase
Positive
Increased Stature
Removed Fr. Threat
Increased National Identity
Doubled Size of US
Released Eastern Pop. Pressure
Negative
NA land taken
NA culture altered or destroyed
Spread slavery – new arable territory
Pushed Am. Closer to the Civil War