Thomas+Jefferson

= ﻿ ﻿Zackary McMullen Thomas Jefferson's Presidency=



Presidency

 * Jefferson was the third president of the United States from 1801-1809. Serving two full terms.
 * During his presidency there was a rising tension between the Federalists and Republicans to get into power.
 * Jefferson was a democratic republican; the first to ever come into office.
 * Before his presidency, Jefferson was the vice president for John Adams and Seceratary of State for George Washington.
 * He wasa a wealthy and aristocratic planter and owned over 100 slaves.
 * Jefferson was not a man of high class. He walked to and from his inauguration and once had a meeting with the British ambassador in a coat and pantaloons.
 * He was not only a politician, but also a scientific farmer, educator, inventor, brilliant conservatist, writer, and architect.
 * Attempted to destroy the sense of extreme power accompanied with the presidency his previous presidents held, and filled up most of the congress by the end of his second term with royal republicans.
 * Jefferson was a brilliant architect as he designed the rotunda of the University of Virginia, and his own home.
 * Jefferson won the election of 1800 with 73 electoral votes and the election of 1804 with 162 electoral votes against his competitors John Adams and C.C. Pinkney.
 * Jefferson during his presidency, cut the national debt from $83 Million to $45 Million.
 * Maybury v. Madison was a supreme court case involving a man appointed to the judiciary branch at the last minute and denied the position due to the Judiciary Act of 1801. The man lost the case and judicial review, an extremely important act given to the judiciary powers, was developed.
 * Thomas Jefferson was forced to make an extreme decision during his first term of presidency when he was given the chance to purchase the Lousiana Purchase from Napolean in 1803, which he gladly accepted. This purchase began an endless quest for manifest destiny, and the right and want to expand the United States' influence as much and as far as possible. This expansion is arguably one of the main reasons the united states is as powerful as it is today.
 * The first state created from the louisiana purchase was annexed into the union in 1812, Louisiana.
 * Jefferson had already planned to expand American influence from ocean to ocean, so he had two men named Lewis and Clark lead an exploratory expedition across the unknown terrain of what is now the whole United States and map out the new territory so it could be mapped out and explored more thoroughly when it was acquired.
 * The napoleonic wars between France and Britain greatly affected the United States because it prevented trade from both countries to the United States causing a financial toll.
 * The United Styates was also in trouble itself due to the turmoil between the Indians committed to protecting their land from white settlers, and settlers expanding into Indian territory.
 * Jefferson signed an impressment protecting sailors from British attack, search, or any other intervention.
 * Lastly, he decided to tell the Indians that they could either assimilate with white society and become farmers, or move to the West of the Mississippi River to make room for the new American expansion for white settlers and farmers.