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Marbury VS Madison
A case that helped estalblished the supreme court's power to check the power to check the power of the other branches of government. I think this is important because this is what happend when they faced eachother -
Native American Conflicts
Native Americans continued to lose land and the United States continued to gain land. This is important because it gave us more land to settle on. -
Thomas Jefferson - 01/08/1802: A convention between the United States and Britain…
A convention between the United States and Britain regarding the treaty of 1794 is concluded. A commission rules that the United States owes £2,664, 000 to British citizens in settlement of Revolutionary War claims. January 08, 1802 -
Thomas Jefferson - 02/06/1802: Congress recognizes the War with Tripoli, authoriz…
Congress recognizes the War with Tripoli, authorizing the arming of merchant ships to ward off attacks. February 06, 1802 -
Election of Thomas Jeferrson
This was when thomas jefferson was elected -
Thomas Jefferson -Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the third presi…
Thomas Jefferson is inaugurated as the third president of the United States, becoming the first president inaugurated in Washington, D.C. Aaron Burr, who had tied Jefferson in electoral votes before losing the election in the House of Representatives, is inaugurated Vice President. March 04, 1801 -
Thomas Jefferson -Yusuf Karamini, pasha of Tripoli, declares war on …
Yusuf Karamini, pasha of Tripoli, declares war on the United States by symbolically cutting down the flagpole at the U.S. consulate. This action came after the United States refused to pay more tribute to the Tripolitans in exchange for protection from piracy against American ships. May 14, 1801 -
Thomas Jefferson - 12/08/1801: President Jefferson delivers his first address to …
President Jefferson delivers his first address to the newly convened seventh Congress of the United States in writing and is read aloud by the House clerk. Expressing his dislike for ceremony, Jefferson establishes the precedent, not broken until the presidency of Woodrow Wilson, of not delivering the State of the Union address in person. December 08, 1801 -
Thomas Jefferson - 02/06/1802: Congress recognizes the War with Tripoli, authoriz…
Congress recognizes the War with Tripoli, authorizing the arming of merchant ships to ward off attacks. February 06, 1802 -
Thomas Jefferson - 04/06/1802: Infamous excise taxes on commodities such as whisk…
Infamous excise taxes on commodities such as whiskey are repealed. April 06, 1802 -
Thomas Jefferson - 04/14/1802: The notorious naturalization laws of 1798 are repe…
The notorious naturalization laws of 1798 are repealed. The required length of residency reverts from fourteen years to five years. April 14, 1802 -
Thomas Jefferson - 04/24/1802: The Georgia legislature cedes to the United States…
The Georgia legislature cedes to the United States its western territory, notorious for the Yazoo land fraud of 1795. April 24, 1802 -
Thomas Jefferson - 04/30/1802: President Jefferson signs the Enabling Act, establ…
President Jefferson signs the Enabling Act, establishing procedures under which territories organized under the Ordinance of 1787 can become a state. The law effectively authorizes people of the Ohio territory to hold a convention and frame a constitution. April 30, 1802 -
Thomas Jefferson - 05/03/1802: Congress officially incorporates Washington as a c…
Congress officially incorporates Washington as a city, empowering Jefferson to appoint the mayor. May 03, 1802 -
Congress officially incorporates Washington as a city, empowering Jefferson to appoint the mayor. May 03, 1802
Congress officially incorporates Washington as a city, empowering Jefferson to appoint the mayor. May 03, 1802 -
Thomas Jefferson - 01/11/1803: Jefferson appoints James Monroe minister to France…
Jefferson appoints James Monroe minister to France and Spain, instructing him to purchase New Orleans and East and West Florida. Napoleon informs U.S. minister in Paris Robert Livingston that France will be willing to sell the entire Louisiana territory, much to his surprise. January 11, 1803 -
Thomas Jefferson - 02/19/1803: Ohio officially becomes the seventeenth state of t…
Ohio officially becomes the seventeenth state of the Union. It is the first state to prohibit slavery by law at its inception. February 19, 1803 -
Thomas Jefferson - 04/19/1803: Spain reopens New Orleans to American me…
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Thomas Jefferson - 04/30/1803: Livingston and Monroe are sent to conclude a treat…
Livingston and Monroe are sent to conclude a treaty for the acquisition of New Orleans, but instead conclude a treaty for the purchase of the entire Louisiana Territory. This day marks the official signing of a peace treaty with France and the purchase of Louisiana. The addition of 828,000 square miles of land between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains is purchased from France for approximately $15 million, increasing the national territory by 140 percent. April 30, 1803 -
Thomas Jefferson - Louisiana Purchase Treaty Signed
On April 30, 1803, representatives from the United States and France signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. The terms of the agreement gave all of the Louisiana territory from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to the United States. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States and is considered one of President Thomas Jefferson's greatest presidential accomplishments. -
Thomas Jefferson - 05/23/1803: Jefferson commissions Commodore Edward Preble as c…
Jefferson commissions Commodore Edward Preble as commander of a U.S. Navy squadron sent to battle Tripoli. May 23, 1803 -
Thomas Jefferson - 08/31/1803: Captain Meriwether Lewis, formerly Jeffe…
Captain Meriwether Lewis, formerly Jefferson's personal secretary, sets out from Pittsburgh to begin an expedition of the newly acquired western territory of the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis will pick up Captain William Clark to serve as co-leader of the trip early in the next year. Jefferson sponsored the journey out of personal scientific curiosity and concern for the economic and political security of the western United States. August 31, 1803 -
Louisiana Purchase
A agreement that doubled the U.S in size
This is important beacuse it gave us more land -
Thomas Jefferson - 12/09/1803: Motivated by the infamous election of 1800, Congre…
Motivated by the infamous election of 1800, Congress passes the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution, requiring electors to vote for President and vice president separately. This ends the tradition of the runner up in a presidential race becoming vice president and prevents chances for a deadlock tie. December 09, 1803 -
Thomas Jefferson - 12/20/1803: The French flag is lowered in New Orleans and the …
The French flag is lowered in New Orleans and the U.S. flag raised, symbolizing the transfer of the Louisiana territory from France to the United States. December 20, 1803 -
Thomas Jefferson - 02/16/1804: Lt. Stephen Decatur burns the captured U.S. frigat…
Lt. Stephen Decatur burns the captured U.S. frigate Philadelphia while docked in Tripoli harbor. Tripolitan gunboats had captured the frigate during the previous October. No one is killed. February 16, 1804 -
Thomas Jefferson - 03/26/1804: Congress passes the Louisiana Territory Act, divid…
Congress passes the Louisiana Territory Act, dividing the Louisiana Purchase into the Territory of Orleans in the south and the district of Louisiana in the north. March 26, 1804 -
Thomas Jefferson - 07/11/1804: Alexander Hamilton is fatally wounded in a pistol …
Alexander Hamilton is fatally wounded in a pistol duel with Aaron Burr. Hamilton had opposed Burr's bid for the presidency in 1800. He further opposed Burr's bid for the governorship of New York, exposing an alleged subversive attempt to establish a separate northern confederacy amongst disgruntled states of New England. Vowing to avenge these dishonors, Burr had challenged Hamilton to the duel. July 11, 1804 -
Zebulon Pike Expedition
Zebulon Pike was sent on another missionto the west to try and find the starting point of the red river. This was important because the United States considered the red river to be a part of the louisiana territory's westernborder with New Spain. -
Embargo act
The law essentially banned trade with foreign countries. This is important because because it stopped us from trading with british and france to protect the United States.
