Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson contradicted himself. He owned hundreds of slaves, and he said, "Slavery is immoral, and should be abolished." Jefferson had many good qualities, and this hypocritical action was one of his very few faults.

Also the Embargo and Non-Importation Acts set up to punish the British for their impressment policy--they only succeeded in wounding the American economy because it restricted US trade more than England's (they simply traded with Latin America instead.)

there was a total of 20 changes to the declaration of independents

It was a declaration of independance from England. It was meant as a "we are separating from England" document to let the world know that America has become it's own nation and will govern itself.

He believed that the American colonies had the right to be free from the British and so his idea of freedom helped the Declaration of Independence be formed.

He specifically attacked the idea of a monarchy and hereditary aristocracy. He goes on to say it is absurd than an island governs a continent in his most prominent work, Common Sense.

He also was a strong supporter of freethinking. He is controversially known for attacking institutionalized religion, and advocating deism. All of this comes mostly from his 3 part book -- The Age of Reason (1794- 1807, released in separate parts).

Another important belief, shown in Common Sense and Rights of Man (supporting the French Revolution), is that a government should always protect the citizenry and their rights and interests. He advocated revolution and independence if necessary.

The states constitutions stated important ideas that were necessary to each state. The United States Constitution tried to put in everything that was important to each state in the big constitution for the whole country.

Their differences were vast. Starting with Washington was very Tall for the time period, standing between 6'2"-6'3" where as Adams was much shorter. Adams was considered an intellectual where as Washington was considered a common sense man. Washington was General of the Army where as Adams did not serve. Many other differences. In addition, George Washington was our First President, and John Adams was the Second President. If you mean John Quincy Adams, he was the Sixth President.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

His last words were "I resign my spirit to God, my daughter to my country". He died on July 4, 1826. It was the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. His friend John Adams died just hours later.

Jefferson valued self-reliance, intelligence, honesty, and hard work. He was perhaps the most able, and intelligent of all the "founding fathers" - a gentleman, farmer, inventor, educator, a strong believer in personal liberty and responsibility. His republican values grew to be at odds with the views of others of this time like John Adam and Alexander Hamilton, who were in favor of a stong central government similar to the English monarchy they had just overthrown.

He was not a big fan of the centralized government called for in the Constitution, and you can thank Thos. J. for a good bit of the Bill of Rights. He was very concerned about any government usurping the rights of the common man. He felt that man had rights, natural rights (such as freedom of speech, expression, etc) that were not granted by any government, but were from 'nature' - and that government could not GRANT rights, only take them away. He was distrustful of the merchant and moneyed class, the banking establishment, and general mercantilism. This rural, independent, "leave me the hell alone' feeling pervaded the southern colonies, but was soon crushed into oblivion by the rapidly industrializing northern colonies.

President Kennedy once hosted a gathering of about 50 Nobel Prize winners at the White House, and he said, "this is probably the greatest collection of talent and human knowledge ever assembled in this place, except for when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."now that's alot of words

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he most likely would have supported it at first because America was in favor of the decline of monarchy's after they broke away from their own monarchy. He probably would not have liked it towards the end though because of all of the violence,

Education...

"...Education would have raised the mass of the people to the high ground of moral respectability necessary to their own safety, and to orderly government..." -Thomas Jefferson to John Adams

They viewed it as a good source for the American colonies. They needed to find a good way to choose a leader for their country, and in response, asked the common people to vote or choose their leader.

Jefferson tried to stop the conflicts with the British. He thought, for some odd reason, that stopping the trade would solve all their problems.

To pressure France and England to stop harassing American shipping without using military force.

Jefferson wanted to pay off debts; Hamilton did not.

Doctor Barnardo lived on Richmond high street

The Continental Congress authorized a committee to write a Declaration of Independence to set forth clearly to England what the problems were.

The five men who comprised the committee were Thomas Jefferson (Virginia), Benjamin Franklin (Pennsylvania), John Adams (Massachusetts), Robert R. Livingston (New York) and Roger Sherman (Connecticut).

Although it is based on other historical documents, and may have been considered by Thomas Jefferson and others prior to its proposal, the period of its drafting is fairly certain. It was drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, and revised by members of Congress including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. It was adopted on July 4, 1776.
there is no amount of time that it took but it was finished in July 4, 1776
It took Thomas Jefferson 17 days to write the Declaration of Independence.

thomas was the 3rd pres. of the united states.he was born on April 13 1743.he died on July 4 1826.he became pres when he was 49 years old

Yes, Thomas Jefferson wanted to be president. In 1796 he ran against John Adams and lost but was elected vice president. In the 1800 election, Jefferson ran again and defeated Adams. In this election, he was in a tie vote with Aaron Burr and Jefferson did everything possible to try to win over Burr. Jefferson ran for a second term in 1804 and won.

When members of the Congress asked Thomas Jefferson to draft the DEclaration of Independence he did so. It only took 3 weeks for him to write it. Years later Thomas decided to make his words into reality in Virginia. :]

Thomas Jefferson was the one who wrote the declaration of indenpendance. But he was on a committee of five men and with their revising they made a total of 80 changes. Mostly though its all Thomas Jefferson, just with a little changes.

The Louisiana Territory is the land that Jefferson arranged to buy from France in 1803. The territory consisted of 828,800 square miles. The U.S. paid 60 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), a total cost of $15,000,000 for this land