Thomas Jefferson

With regard to the French revolution Thomas Jefferson predicted: "this ball of liberty, I believe most piously, is now so well in motion that it will roll round the globe, at least the enlightened part of it, for light & liberty go together. It is our glory that we first put it into motion."

About 5 million people were counted by the 1800 Census (August 4, 1800).

It showed the estimated population of the US as 5,308,483 people, of which 893,602 were slaves.

Thomas Jefferson was president from 1801 to 1809. He wrote the Declaration of Independence while he was a member of Viginia's delegation to Congress 1775-1776. Because he was in Europe, Jefferson took no part in writting the US Constitution.

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His Declaration of independance effected us today because if he didnt write that then we wouldn't have our freedom or our rights

In 1794, James Madison was a US Congressman and the capital was in Philadelphia when Dolley lived. He became in interested in her and asked her friend Aaron Burr, who was a frequent guest at the boarding house managed by Mary Payne, to introduce her.

in his inaugural speech, Jefferson said the purpose of government is 5 fold:

The government should...

1. Acknowledge and adore God,

2. Exercise frugality,

3. Restrain the infliction of injury (i.e. keep people safe, keep criminals away,)

4. Encourage entrepreneurship and free enterprise, and

5. Protect property, earnings of citizens.

Not quite.

Not God, but Providence. Jefferson was a Diest. He believed in the God of Nature; the Creator. Not Yahweh. Not Christ.

Not an endorsement of one God, but of religions that inculcate "honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man".

And he specifically said "labor". Not money earned any other way.

"Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter--with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens--a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."

Against. It was unfair to the southern farmers, who transported grain as whiskey.

It is true that Jefferson made no attempt to release his slaves. However, there are countless recorded incidents where "masters" did free their slaves but the slaves refused to leave, or left and then came back to the plantations where they previously resided. Why was that? It's obvious, they had no where else to go. If Jefferson freed his slaves they would have had nowhere to go and would have probably starved. That would have been much more inhuman than actually keeping them and having them work for him.

Now I move onto your second point. Yes, it is true Jefferson did express his fears about slavery. Individuals, such as yourself, who are uneducated on this subject believe that the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 is basically the only act that may show that Jefferson might have opposed slavery . However, if you did any type of actual research, besides what you learned in high school, you would know that this is not true. Jefferson did truly oppose slavery. If you had done any research and gained any knowledge on this subject you would have learned that Congress removed a quarter of Jefferson's original draft in the Declaration of Independence that denounced the horrors of the slave trade and explained how evil it was.

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He was member of the Virginia House of Burgesses, the Virginia Chamber of Deputies and a delegate to the Continental Congress. He also was governor of Virginia during the revolutionary war.

He didn't! First of all, electricity was discovered, not invented. The Greeks first discovered electricity by realizing that rubbing amber on fur caused an attraction between the two - think static electricity.

William Gilbert coined the term 'electric' from a similar Greek word.

Most people commonly believe Ben Franklin was the 'father' of electricity, but he wasn't. His observations did lead to the invention of the lightning rod, however. A good first step.

In 1800, physicist Alessandro Volta constructed the voltaic pile, later known as the electric battery. It was Volta, not Franklin, who discovered that certain chemical reactions could produce electricity.

It wasn't until 1831 that electricity became viable for use in technology. English scientist Michael Faraday created the electric dynamo, a precursor of modern power generators. This invention opened the door to the new era of electricity. A few decades later, Joseph Swan invented the light bulb.

It wasn't a speech but the Declaration of Independence.

Yes, because he thought they were unnecessary for people. ~bb.(;

George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson

George Washington died of pneumonia on 14 December 1799
George Washington didn't die from a disease. Rather, he died from having a common cold and being bled too much by his physicians.and a common cold of malaria

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Thomas Jefferson kept meticulous hand-written records. He had 187 slaves. A slave named Sally Hemings and her 5 children were freed by Thomas Jefferson either before his death or in his will. These were almost the only slaves which Thomas Jefferson ever freed and the other slaves were sold shortly after he died in order to provide money to pay off some of Jefferson's outstanding debts.

Thomas often answered the door to people while wearing his house slippers. What a way to greet someone!

Thomas Jefferson was thirty-three years old when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Relationship is a very broad term & in the purest sense, he had at least an OWNERSHIP relationship with all his slaves..

Sally Hemmings was his slave but he apparently also was sexually intimate & several of her children's ancestors have Jefferson's DNA.

Sally & most of Jefferson's slaves came as dowery from his wifes family when they married.

Sally may have also been a half sister to Jefferson's first wife, meaning his father-in law, was intimate with Sally's mother... That slave thing got pretty involved & confusing, with a lot of blurred moral lines crossed.

it caused ordinary citizens to become aware of their importance in society

Farmers. He thought the strength was with the common man and in the farms.

attempted to avoid involvement in the european affairs

Idea #1: Need for a limited Government.

Idea #2: Protection of Civil Liberties.