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When the Founding Fathers were deciding on a system to regulate U.S. measurements, the default was to use the British Imperial System, as they were subjects of the British Empire. However, the U.S. was very close to adopting the metric system, which was conceived by the French in 1790. But ultimately, Thomas Jefferson, then secretary of state, decided against it. According to Time magazine, “His beef was that the meter was conceived as a portion of a survey of France, which could only be measured in French territory.”

After studying the various units of measurements used across the United States, John Quincy Adams upheld this decision 1821, deciding that the U.S. Customary System was sufficient.

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