Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson positivley affected us by writing the Declaration of Independence which helped us get free from Britain instead of them in control.

He took a walk around torest.Also he stood up while writing cool

Thomas Jefferson had about 20,000 books.

it means that if your friends are doing something and you dont think its right you shouldent do it....

He was against it even though he himself owned slaves.

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George Mason and Thomas Jefferson had a working relationship. In fact, Jefferson drew on George Mason's draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights while writing the Declaration of Independence.

As a federalist, Hamilton wanted a strong national/federal governament, while Jefferson favored state governaments. Hamilton favored Britain, America's major trading partner, as according to the foreign policy, while Jefferson liked France, the U.S.'s first ally. Hamilton wanted the economy brought up on Manufacturing and Industry, and Jefferson thought farming was best.

No they see Thomas Jefferson as a great person for writing the declaration of independence but it did not help him become president.

1. Economy--Should agrarian based with farming and land-related industry to finance the nation's economy (although later in his life he switched and recognized the importance of manufacturing and finance more)

2. Tariff--Being from the South, Jefferson was suspicious of tariffs since it protected the North and hurt the SOuth (through higher prices for imported goods)

3. The people--While Jefferson tended to trust the common folk more than Jefferson it is incorrect to assume that Jefferson felt the ordinary American was capable of governing themselves--he didn't. He was closer to Hamilton on this issue than many teachers are aware. jefferson was an elitist, just as Hamilton was, although he DID place more confidence on the common man than did Hamilton.

He wanted to purchase Louisiana from France.

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Thomas Jefferson

He fired all tax collectors, cut the number of government employees and the number of US diplomats. In addition to that he shrank the military and rided the Sedition Act.

Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in 1775-1776. He was responding to the British and encouraging the 13 colonies to declare independence.

Thomas Jefferson served as the first United States Secretary of State from 1789 to 1793 and was also the second vice president from 1797 to 1801.

Despite his other genuine contributions to the formation of the nation, his legacy will always be the Louisiana Purchase. Its a shame that a genius at creative writing will be remembered as a merchant.

Jefferson spent considerable time in Paris. Apparenly he liked the architecture he saw in Europe and was influenced by it in his own designs.

The Declaration of Independance grants Americans their inalienable rights. Those are the rights to life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness. However, many scholars fail to realize that the Declaration also grants Americans the right to over throw their government should the government become destructive to our inalienable rights.

Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Monroe who all died on July 4, but only Adams and Jefferson in the same year.

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They had issues for a number of reasons. First, they had opposing political beliefs about the role and nature of government. Adams was for a strong central government. Jefferson was for a weaker one that left more governmental power to the individual states. Adams believed government should be left to the care of wiser men than the general public. Jefferson believed government by the general public was exactly what the revolution was all about in the first place. They came to be leaders of the two different political parties, Federalist and Republican, that sprang up among the citizens and politicians of the time. This led to opposing political factions forming, each wanting the other out of the way and each looking to Adams or Jefferson to lead them. They both let these political differences become personal dislikes. This was because they began to see each other as turning his back on the ideals that led to the new country in the first place. Another issue that arose was that Jefferson, along with James Madison, was working behind Adams' back to unseat Adams as president, even though Jefferson was Adams's Vice-president. Jefferson had written a letter to a friend of his that was critical of Adams's political views. The letter somehow became public to the embarassment of Adams. Adams was so angry he refused to speak to Jefferson for many years. Even Abigail Adams was furious with Jefferson and wrote him telling him that he was two-faced. Jefferson's behind the scenes actions against Adams were successful, and Jefferson beat Adams in the next presidential election after Adams had served only one term. Adams left office without staying to see Jefferson sworn in. John Adams was a difficult man to get along with. He even disliked his staunchest fellow Federalist, Alexander Hamilton. It is was no surprise that Adams and Jefferson eventually had their falling out, since Adams was hardly liked by anyone around him, except Abigail. In fact, while Adams was president, he relied more on her than on his own cabinet members for advice. The surprising thing was that the two managed to reconcile their friendship later on.

The US bought land from France (the Louisiana Purchase) and bought Alaska from Russia.

We purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark and the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico.

The purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians happened before there was a United States.