Question

9. Describe in detail why each of the events below were important to Thomas Jefferson's presidency.
a. Election of 1800
b. Marbury v. Madison
c. Cutting size and expenses of the federal government
d. El Cazador shipwreck
e. Haitian Revolution
f. Louisiana Purchase
g. First Barbary War
h. Embargo Act of 1807
@djcool31 @christiansousley

Answer 1

First Barbary War it was important cos it was the first war that was ever declared on the united states

Answer 2

Louisiana Purchase:President Thomas Jefferson wrote this prediction in an April 1802 letter to Pierre Samuel du Pont amid reports that Spain would retrocede to France the vast territory of Louisiana. As the United States had expanded westward, navigation of the Mississippi River and access to the port of New Orleans had become critical to American commerce, so this transfer of authority was cause for concern. Within a week of his letter to du Pont, Jefferson wrote U.S. Minister to France Robert Livingston: "Every eye in the U.S. is now fixed on this affair of Louisiana. Perhaps nothing since the revolutionary war has produced more uneasy sensations through the body of the nation." [3]

Answer 3

. Election of 1800:Thomas Jefferson defeated John Adams. The election was a realigning election that ushered in a generation of Democratic-Republican Party rule and the eventual demise of the Federalist Party in the First Party System. It was a long, bitter re-match of the 1796 election between the pro-French and pro-decentralization Democratic-Republicans under Jefferson and Aaron Burr, against incumbent Adams and Charles Pinckney's pro-British and pro-centralization Federalists. The chief political issues included opposition to the tax imposed by Congress to pay for the mobilization of the new army and the navy in the Quasi-War against France in 1798, and the Alien and Sedition Acts, by which Federalists were trying to stifle dissent, especially by Democratic-Republican newspaper editors.

Answer 4

Marbury v. Madison: was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. The landmark decision helped define the boundary between the constitutionally separate executive and judicial branches of the American form of government. this was impportant to him because he wanted a civil government an he wanted something for people to remember he was the one that originated the branches of the government