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First tied presidential election with Jefferson and Burr both at seventy-three votes each.
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67,000 acres of government owned land were bought because people wanted to have their own farms. The following year 498,000 more acres were bought.
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At the time congress was heavily ruled by Republicans, but they were also first time legislators.
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Bought during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, making the size of the united states more than double in size. The land was bought from France after it was given back to them from Spain.
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His was the first ever election that resulted in a transfer of power from one political party to the opposing.
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It was the first Supreme Court decision to declare a federal law. The case was presided be Cheif of Justice John Marshall who was heavily self taught.
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We agreed to pay 15 million dollars for the entirety of it. People were questioning if Jefferson's actions were legal since never mentioned if the constitution, but he couldn't care less.
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Jefferson consulted congress if he could send two people on an expedition to see what the territory was like of the Louisiana Purchase. One of the people being a 29 year-old secretary named Lewis.
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Jefferson signed a landmark bill to make it illegal after her reduced national debt and shrinking the federal budget.
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16,000 refugees came from Haiti to the United States. Later issues from this prevented Americans to do business in Haiti and did not even recognize Haiti’s independence until 1862 because of the U.S. government.