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The Adams Presidency The Election of 1796 - Its A Tie! (?) Thomas Jefferson John Adams Democratic-Republican Federalist ! Federalist electors voted for Adams Republican electors voted for Jefferson Constitution says the candidate who

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The Adams Presidency The Election of 1796 - It’s A Tie! (?)

Federalist electors voted for Adams Republican electors voted for Jefferson Constitution says the candidate who wins the most electoral votes becomes President Vice-President is candidate with the next highest number of votes

John Adams

Federalist

Thomas Jefferson

Democratic-Republican

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The XYZ Affair

President Adams sent a team to France to negotiate a treaty 3 Frenchmen demanded a $250,000 bribe “millions for defense, but not once cent for tribute”

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everyone wanted war, but Adams knew we couldn’t win smoothed things over w/the French but lost political support

Federalists wanted to avoid war with France and silence their critics, many of whom were foreign-born who wanted the US to go to war w/France

The Alien and Sedition Acts

The Alien Acts ! raised residency requirement for citizenship from 5-14 yrs ! President can deport any alien during peace The Sedition Acts made sedition illegal

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The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Jefferson and Madison organized support in the southern Republican states against these acts ! ! ! VA and KY declared that states had the right to declare a federal law unconstitutional within their borders and not follow it

Jeffersonian Democracy

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electors cast two ballots without specifying President

r Vice President

! Jefferson and Burr earned 73 electoral votes ! Constitution says if its a tie, the House must decide Revolution of 1800: political control of a country was transferred by democratic election (rather than through war)

Marbury v. Madison

1803 Supreme Court case

! William Marbury sued for his judge position ! decision: Marbury had the legal right to his appointment ! Judiciary Act of 1789 is unconstitutional ! the right of “judicial review”

(to interpret the Constitution)

Judiciary Act of 1801

reduced number of Supreme Court justices from six to five ! the night before he left office, Adams appointed many Federalist “midnight judges” ! Jefferson refused to allow these judges to have their jobs

!Chief Justice John Marshall

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Spain had ceded Louisiana, including New Orleans, back to France in 1800 ! Toussaint L’Ouverture led a rebellion in Haiti

(French colony)

! France ready to give up American possessions

The Louisiana Purchase

1803

Jefferson offered Napoleon $10 million for FL and New Orleans ! he bought the entire area for $15 million (3 cents/acre)

Lewis and Clark

1803

The Corps of Discovery, 1803–1806 name given to the group made up of people of diverse backgrounds and experiences Charbonneau= French trapper; Sacajawea=Charbonneau’s Native American wife; York=slave

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collected and recorded animals and plants and met Natives Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark conducted an expedition to find a water route to the Pacific