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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