Today my class went over Jefferson's presidency. I am not all together satisfied with what was taught, though I feel like students received the information they needed. When teaching about Jefferson it is difficult to know where you should spend most of your instructional time? Is it with the actual election, the Louisiana Purchase, his foreign policy, or Marbury vs. Madison?
Though I am sure it will not be on the exam, I spend some time trying to get students to understand the significance of the election of 1800 and the idea that a peaceful transfer of power of one political party to another had never happened. I think that students struggle to remember that everything we know as concrete and stable was not so in the early republic.
Below is a clip I showed about who shot Hamilton, the students really enjoyed it.
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