A Growing NationAmerican Adolescence

The Election of 1800

Jefferson V.S. John Adams

Both parties tossed wild charges at one another

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Drl8fpWTKo

Jefferson won by 8 electoral votes

For the first time America witnessed a peaceful transition of power

Federalist Party (John Adams) to the Democratic Republicans

Jeffersonian Republicanism

The people should control the government and a simple government best suits the needs of the people

An idealist (who bent the rules)A man of contradictions

A slave owner who hated slaveryAn advocate of the constitution, but ignored it at least oncePreached Frugality , but dies in debt

Marbury v. Madison

Happened herehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwciUVLdSPk

The Result: Judicial ReviewThe ability of the supreme court to declare a law

The Louisiana Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase

1800: Spain transfers control of the Louisiana territory to Napoleon Bonaparte

1803: Napoleon abandoned his ideas of an American empire

Napoleon sent 35,000 troops to crush a slave rebellion in Haiti.

He lost more the 24,000

America purchased the Louisiana territory for $15,000,000

That’s 828,000 square miles for only 3 cents an acre

Lewis and Clark

Introduction

What was the result:The trip cost $2,500Gains:

Knowledge of new plants and animalsFound suitable farming lands

The War of 1812

War of 1812

The ResultsLed to the end of the federalist partyEncouraged America to become independent from Britain economicallyConfirmed Americas independence

The Monroe Doctrine

1823 President James Monroe:European powers should not interfere with affairs in the western empire and should not attempt to establish colonies or overthrow newly independent republicsIn return the U.S. would do the same in Europe and its colonies Became the foundation of foreign policy and put America on the map

Economy Conflict

Industrial Revolution (18th century)In the North

Textile mills riseFarmers specialize in specific crops

In the SouthEli Whitney and The Cotton GinSlavery increased from 700,000 – 1.5 million

Andrew Jackson

“I cannot believe that killing twenty-five hundred Englishmen at New Orleans qualifies [him] for the various difficult and complicated duties of [the presidency].” – Henry Clay

Sought to give common people a chance to participate in government.

Nullification

Tariff of AbominationsThe South was forced to buy more expensive Northern manufactured goods.From the South’s point of view, the North was getting rich at the expense of the South.

NullificationCalhoun’s (Jackson’s V.P.) theory that states could reject a federal law that it considered unconstitutional.The Compromise of 1833

Resolved Nullification by lowering the tariffs over 10 years

“Trail of Tears” (1942)

The Indian Removal Act

Two basic ideas on how to deal with the Indian “problem”

Civilization: Native American would become farmers, concert to Christianity, own land

Removal: Move the Natives Americans west

In 1833, a small group of Cherokee signed the Treaty of New Echota.

A removal act

The Trail of Tears

The Cherokee were given two years to migrate. By 1838 only 2,000 did so.

As a result the U.S. government sent 7,000 troops to force the Cherokee people off their land.

The Cherokee people were forced to march 800 miles.

4,000 died along the way