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20. Jeffersonian America: A Second Revolution?

The election of 1800 and what Jefferson made of it: the Louisiana Purchase, the new capital, Marshall's court, and Gabriel's rebellion.

20. Jeffersonian America: A Second Revolution?

Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence as well as a slaveholder, was a man of many contradictions. The harsh public antagonism of the…

20a. The Election of 1800

A captured moment in the amazing case of The United States v. Aaron Burr. The election of 1800 between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson was an emotional and har…

20b. Jeffersonian Ideology

A marble mosaic of Greek goddess Minerva in the Library of Congress symbolizes the preservation of civilization as well as the promotion of the arts and scienc…

20c. Westward Expansion: The Louisiana Purchase

One of the first colored illustrations to be put into print, John H.B. Latrobe's The Balise. Mississippi River captures the haunting image of a navigation sta…

20d. A New National Capital: Washington, D.C.

This image, View of the Capitol at Washington by William H. Bartlett, was engraved by Joseph C. Bently in 1837. The Louisiana Purchase and rapid western expans…

20e. A Federalist Stronghold: John Marshall's Supreme Court

Marbury v. Madison was one of the most important decisions in U.S. judicial history, because it legitimized the ability of the Supreme Court to judge the consi…

20f. Gabriel's Rebellion: Another View of Virginia in 1800

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among th…