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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the 3rd President of the United States from 1817 to 1825, and is well known for being one of the Founding Fathers.
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Why did Thomas Jefferson attempt to purchase New Orleans in 1802 and 1803?
By purchasing New Orleans, Americans would have a guarantee of their right to sail down the Mississippi and unload their goods in New Orleans, where they could then be shipped to the Caribbean. Also, many American settlers and traders were already present in the region. Eventually Napoleon offered to sell the whole Louisiana territory to fund his wars in Europe, and Jefferson jumped on the offer.
What was the deal that was made between Hamilton and Jefferson concerning the capital?
Hamilton and Jefferson agreed to a national capitol along the Potomac River.
How tall is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial?
The Jefferson Memorial, located in Washington, D.C., is 74,300 square miles, or 192,436 square kilometers. The famous bronze statute of Jefferson, located in the interior of the Memorial building, is 9 feet tall and weighs 10,000 pounds.
How was Thomas Jefferson important for the Revolutionary War?
Thomas Jefferson was important in the revolutionary war because he was a patriot in the American revolution.
What were Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on equal rights?
Thomas Jefferson's believed that slavery was wrong but that African Americans were inferior and if they didn't own them then they would die because they were stupid. He believed that there was nothing anyone could do and that slavery was always there and will always be.
Trick question
The two are not connected.
How did Thomas Jefferson commonly refer to Native Americans?
He thought that they took up to much space and there to expensive like there wars so why should we have them also he thought they were stupid and he should take there land
Actually, Thomas Jefferson was forced to choose between doing what was the right thing to do and what was the best thing to do. He harbored no ill feelings toward the Native Americans, but he also realized that it was in America's best interest to expand.
What beliefs did John Adams and Thomas Jefferson share?
Did Declaration of Independence give freedom?
No. The colonies subsequently had to fight a war for independence. The independence of the United States was only recognized by the United Kingdom in the Treaty of Paris of 1783, nearly seven years after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Who wrote the declarationof the independence?
Thomas Jefferson Because he wanted to give the 13 American colonies Independence from Britain. Also because he had to because he was the youngest, best writer and from Virginia because they are the leaders for the Revolution.
A major reason President Thomas Jefferson authorized the Lewis and Clark expedition was to?
The expedition's goal as stated by President Jefferson was "to explore the Missouri River, & such principal stream of it as, by its course & communication with the water of the Pacific ocean may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce." In addition, the expedition was to learn more about the Northwest's natural resources, inhabitants, and possibilities for settlement.
Jefferson's instructions to Lewis were:
"Beginning at the mouth of the Missouri, you will take observations of latitude and longitude at all remarkable points on the river, & especially at the mouths of rivers, at rapids, at islands & other places & objects distinguished by such natural marks & characters of a durable kind, as that they may with certainty be recognized hereafter....The variations of the compass too, in different places should be noticed."
(considering the Native Americans) "...You will therefore endeavor to make yourself acquainted, as far as diligent pursuit of your journey shall admit with the names of the nations & their numbers, the extent & limits of their possessions; their relations with other tribes or nations; their language, traditions, monuments, their ordinary occupations in agriculture, fishing, hunting, war, arts & the implements for these, their food, clothing, & domestic accommodations, the diseases prevalent among them, & the remedies they use, moral and physical circumstance which distinguish them from the tribes they know, particularities in their laws, customs & dispositions, and articles of commerce they may need or furnish & to what extent."
"Other objects worthy of notice will be the soil & face of the country, it's growth & vegetable productions, especially those not of the US; the animals of the country generally & especially those not known in the US; the remains & accounts of any which may be deemed rare or extinct; the mineral productions of every kind, but more particularly metals, limestone, pit coal & saltpetre, salines & mineral waters, noting the temperature of the last & such circumstances as may indicate their character; volcanic appearances; climate as characterized by the thermometer, by the proportion of rainy, cloudy & clear days, by lightening, hail, snow, ice, by the access & recess of frost, by the winds, prevailing at different seasons & the dates at which particular plants put forth or lose their flower or leaf, times of appearance of particular birds, reptiles or insects."
What was Jefferson's political philosophy?
Thomas Jefferson wanted the power of government to be in the hands of people; limited government.
What Jefferson came to office what steps did he take to lower national debt?
He streamlined the bureaucracy and increased the sales of federal land.
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What did Thomas Jefferson do after he was president?
Thomas Jefferson continued to participate in public affairs after his Presidency. One of his main achievements was founding the University of Virginia in 1819 - which was centered around a library instead of a chapel.
How old was Thomas Jefferson when he signed the Declaration of Independence?
Any encyclopedia, or even a dictionary for that matter, would tell you he was born in 1743. Therefor he turned 44 in 1787. Michael Montagne
According to http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html , Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743. If the question is how old was Thomas Jefferson in 1787, this means we have a simple math problem.
1783-1743=44
Thus meaning Thomas Jefferson would have been 44 years old in 1787.
44
Being that Jefferson was born in the year 1743, he would have been 44 years of age in 1787.
According to the World Book encyclopedia, Thomas Jefferson was born in 1743. For this reason Jefferson would have been 44 years old in 1787.
Was Thomas Jefferson With or against neutrality?
Jefferson was clearly WITH neutrality because when he was secretary of state for Washington he signed the proclamation of neutrality witch went on to get ratified.
Why were people shocked At Darwin's new ideas?
because the population was very religious at the time, and what he was claiming was going against what is stated in the bible. now, of course, we are not so religious so can accept his ideas more easily.
hope that helped :)
They are Founding Fathers because they played an important part in the founding of the Unites States. However, they are not the only people considered Founding Fathers. There were a great many and any attempt to make a list would surely miss some.
How many brothers did Thomas Jefferson have?
Thomas Jefferson had seven sisters and two brothers.
There names were...
Jane Jefferson(1740-1765)and never married
Marry Jefferson(October 1st ,1741-1811)and married to John Bolling
Elizabeth Jefferson(1744-1774)mentally handicapped and never married
Martha Jefferson(1746-1811)married to Dabney Carr
Peter Field Jefferson(1748-1811)died before he was at the age of one
Unnamed son(1850-1850)born and died in 1850
Lucy Jefferson(October 10th ,1752-1810)and married Charles Lilburne Lewis
Anne Scott Jefferson(October 1st ,1755-July 8th ,1828)married Hastings Marks
Randolph Jefferson(October !st ,1755-Augest 7th 1815)she is a twin of Anna Jefferson Lewis(1781)and Mitchie Ballow Pryor(c. 1809)
What did Jefferson mean when he said all men were created equal?
Up until that time, and in some cases, even today, people born into royalty or "higher classes" were thought to be better than other people. Jefferson's words meant that all men were equal in stature or station. In other words, there was not a natural "upper class".
When is it okay to overthrow the government according to Jefferson?
From the Declaration of Independence. Not only do you have the right to overthrow your government, it is a responsibility placed on us by a founding fathers. If our government betrays us, acts other than in accordance to our wishes, or we feel changes need to be made, it is our obligation to do so.
Selected quotes by Jefferson about 'rebellion':
- "What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787. ME 6:373, Papers 12:356
- "The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere." --Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1787.
- "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., securing inherent and inalienable rights, with powers derived from the consent of the governed], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776. ME 1:29, Papers 1:315
- "We think experience has proved it safer for the mass of individuals composing the society to reserve to themselves personally the exercise of all rightful powers to which they are competent and to delegate those to which they are not competent to deputies named and removable for unfaithful conduct by themselves immediately." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. ME 14:487
Where is the Victoria memorial located?
There are several in the United Kingdom as befits such a long-lived monarch. There are probably some in colonies such as Australia and Canada, there is a town called Victoria in Australia, and also Queensland. Somewhat oddly there is a portrait statue of Victoria in a Baltimore, Md. Cemetery or memorial park. ( for that matter there is an unattributed but neat statue of Catherine II in a local Catholic Cemetery in Jersey City. it just is not inscribed as ( Catherine the Great but is obviously her.
Locke's ideas had the most influence over?
the rights and freedoms of the individual written into the U.S. Declaration of Independence.
