HIST 2055 Chapter : Jefferson Presidency
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Jefferson presidency: alien and sedition acts were repealed by jefferson, louisiana purchase. Napoleon had reacquired louisiana from spain promised the spanish crown not to sell it without their permission; reneged on on this promise. Napoleon decided to sell relatively cheaply authorized initially to only buy new orleans informed that they could buy the entire la. Purchase no guarantee that jefferson or congress would accept this. Democratic republicans saw themselves as strict constructionists weren"t sure the la. Purchase was constitutional nothing to state that he could buy land from foreign countries decided he could do it through treaty: landslide reelection for jefferson. Scandal emerges about jefferson"s background had children by one of his slaves (sally hemmings) After martha (his wife) died relatively young, rumor had it, he took up with the slave: in the 1990s, a historian found that every time the children were conceived, Able to brush off this story relatively well.
