Paige and I covered the election of 1800 and 1804, the policies of the federalists and anti-federalists, the Louisiana Purchase, the Marshall Court, Marbury v Madison, the Napoleonic Wars and neutrality principles of Pres. Jefferson, and the Battle of Tripoli. We then discussed the Embargo Act of 1807, the election of James Madison, and relations with France and England before and during the War of 1812. We then started a primary document analysis with comprehension questions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 and the Treaty of Ghent. We discussed changing attitudes toward slavery and the Native Americans that came with calls from more western expansion. Paige will use this analysis to create the framework for a thesis and argumentative essay later.