6.4 The Nation Expands

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6.4 The Nation Expands
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Objectives

• Discuss the policy changes that the Republican
  Congress made during Jeffersons 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.

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Bellringer

• What is a strict constructionist? Was Thomas
  Jefferson one?

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Copy HW

• Read and take notes on p. 211-215 using the focus
  questions

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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?

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Intro

• What was Pinckneys Treaty?

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Policy changes made during Jeffersons 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• Repealed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.

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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

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• 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

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LA Purchase

• Violated Jeffersons strict constructionist
  view.
• But he authorized it anyway
• NOT an example of the use of the ELASTIC CLAUSE
  why?

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Accomplishments of the LA Territorys Explorers

• Lewis and Clark Expedition/Sacagawea

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

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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