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Thomas JeffersonRevolution of 1800
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Republicans to Power

• Strict interpretation of the Constitution
• States rights over Federal rights
• Jefferson 1800 1804
• Madison 1808 1812
• Monroe 1816 1820

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Small Government

• Limit Federal power
• Departure from Federalist position (Hamiltonian)
• Pay off debt (debt counter)
• Cut spending
• Did away with whiskey tax

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Marbury v. Madison

• Significance Judicial Review
• Judiciary Act of 1801
• Adams Midnight judges appointment of 16 federal
  judges his last day in office.
• Marbury v. Madison (later) Read in your
  textbook. Why is it important?

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Jeffersonian Democracy

• Representative democracy
• All about the farmer
• Spread the Empire of Liberty
• Imperialism?

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Jeffersonian Democracy cont.

• Careful eye on national government
• Separation of church and state
• Rights of individuals and states
• VA KY Resolutions

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Representative Democracy

• Protect individual rights in face of majority
• Republic-mentality (Greece, Rome)
• James Madisons Fed. 10

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Louisiana Purchase 1803

• France gets Louisiana Territory from Spain
• Jefferson worried French presence in North
  America would cause U.S. to align with G.B.
• Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to conquer Europe and
  did not want a U.S. and G.B. alliance, so he sold
  Louisiana Terrritory.

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Louisiana Purchase 1803

• 11.25 million (land) 3.75 million (debts)
• 15 million

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Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804

• Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
• Expedition Corps of Discovery
• Sacagawea Shoshone woman who became their guide
  and interpreter.
• Goal to find the Northwest Passage

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Zebulon Pike 1805-1806

• Upper MS River
• Arkansas River
• Pikes Peak
• Texas (Mexico)
• Gave Americans
• their first description of the Great Plains and
  Rocky Mountains

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Duel!

• Massachusetts Federalists (Essex Junto) wanted
  N.E. to leave the Union. Convinced Burr to run
  for governor of N.Y.
• Hamilton criticizes Burr, Burr then challenges
  Hamilton to a duel. Burr won.
• Accused of treason
• Arrested, found innocent

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Here was buried . . . Thomas Jefferson Author
of the Declaration of American Independence. of
the statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and
Father of the University of Virginia. WHATS
MISSING?????