All terms listed about the Jeffersonian era
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| 607471166 | Election of 1800 | Was between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams again but since so many people had turned away from John Adams during his presidency Thomas Jefferson won. This election was also important because it was the first time you would run with a running mate instead of having the other person come in second as your vice president. They did it this way because it had been such a train when Thomas Jefferson was under John Adams. | |
| 607471167 | Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson was a young Virginian lawyer who was also a member of the House of Burgesses and became a very well known man through his writings. He drafted the Virginia State Constitution but more importantly he came up with the Declaration of Independence. This one of the most important documents written since this showed our independence and our separation from Great Britain. Jefferson finalized the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, and in this document he states a lot of ideas based on the ideas of John Locke. This was important because it signaled that they had made a decision and they were separating form England no matter what it took | |
| 607471168 | John Marshal | He was a distant cousin of Jefferson's from Virginia who was made Secretary of State by Adams and the just before Adams left office he was appointed to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was a Federalist and reflected those views through the decisions that he made. Then when it came to the case Marbury vs. Madison he did something that was unexpected. He did not choose. He said that his job was just Judicial Review. He was important because he basically outlined his own job description and went against that everyone thought he would pick Marbury. | |
| 607471169 | Merbury vs. Madison | This was a court case between a man named William Marbury and James Madison. Marbury had been a midnight appointee and when James Madison refused to accept that when he became Jefferson's Secretary of State they took it to the court. Marbury sued them and claimed a Writ of Mandamus. Since the head justice was a federalist people expected him to give the Writ of Mandamus to Marbury. However instead he did not make a decision. He said his job was only judicial review. This was important because it defined the job of the Supreme court | |
| 607471170 | Lousiana purchase and lweis and clark | In 1803 Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase from France. This went against everything that he believed in. He made the decision without asking the states and it cost 15 million dollars. However the people did not have a problem with this because it did help the common man. It provided them with tons more land. The chunk of land bought nearly double the size of the America. This was important because it shows that we are land obsessed and we are okay with big government as long as they are doing the things we would have wanted. Lewis and Clark went the Sacagewia to explore the land and build relationships with the people within the Louisiana purchase. | |
| 607471171 | Embargo act of 1807 | These were trading rules set up to hurt England economically and prove to them that when we said stop we meant it. In this it was said that no trading whatsoever with England could occur. This plan backfired because the person we traded with the most was England and our exports went down 80%. Since we were no longer trading we needed a way to make the same products we were importing and then came to creation of the cotton gin. Overall the Embargo Act was important because it proved that we still needed to trade even if we hated them. | |
| 607471172 | War of 1812 | Treaty of Ghent)Signed in Belgium this treaty ended the war of 1812. It was signed in December of 1814 even though the last battle occurred a month later in January. It ended in an armistice because both ide agreed to just stop what they were doing. This is important because we had officially proven that we could stand up to them. In the end when the peace treaty was signed it was signed as an armistice. That means that there was a cease fire. That was because both group did not have anything to claim and no money was owed so the war just stopped. However we were finally recognized as a real country since we beat them twice. |
