An Overview of Thomas Jefferson's Administration

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During Jefferson's two terms as President, the United States doubled in area, America preserved its hard-won neutrality while Napoleon's armies battled most of Europe, and Congress passed a law banning the slave trade.

Election of 1800			Election of 1804
Candidate Thomas Jefferson Aaron Burr John Adams Charles C. Pinckney John Jay	Electoral Vote 73 73 65 64 1		Candidate Thomas Jefferson Charles C. Pinckney	Electoral Vote 162 14

Vice-Presidents and Cabinet
Vice-President	Aaron Burr George Clinton (1805)
Secretary of State	James Madison
Secretary of the Treasury	Samuel Dexter Albert Gallatin (1801)
Secretary of War	Henry Dearborn
Attorney General	Levi Lincoln John Breckinridge (1805) Caesar A. Rodney (1807)
Secretary of the Navy	Robert Smith

United States Events During His Administration
States Admitted Ohio (1803)
Territories Organized Orleans (1804), Louisiana (1805), Michigan (1805), Illinois (1809)
Population in 1809 7,040,000
1801-1805	The United States waged war against Tripoli to stop the Barbary pirates from molesting American ships in the Mediterranean.
1802	Congress established the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
April 30, 1803	The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for about $15,000,000.
1803	Chief Justice John Marshall established the Supreme Court's power of judicial review in the Marbury v Madison decision.
1804	The 12th Amendment, providing for the separate elections of President and Vice-President, was proclaimed.
July 11, 1804	Vice-President Aaron Burr shot and killed former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
1805	Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific Coast.
1806	Zebulon M. Pike explored the Rocky Mountains and sighted the Colorado peak that bears his name.
March 2, 1807	Congress prohibited the importation of African slaves into the United States.
December 12, 1807	Congress passed the Embargo Act, forbidding U.S. ships to carry goods to other nations.
1807	Robert Fulton demonstrated the first commercially successful steamboat, the Clermont, on the Hudson River.
1807	Aaron Burr was tried for treason and acquitted.
March 1, 1809	The Non-Intercourse Act was passed, nullifying the Embargo Act.

World Events During His Administration
1803	John Dalton proposed his atomic theory of matter.
1804	Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of the French.
1804	Richard Trevithick of Great Britain invented the steam locomotive.
1807	Great Britain abolished the slave trade throughout its colonies.

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