Thomas Jefferson

He wanted to continue his affair with Sally Hemmings, which was only possible through secretly smuggling ginseng, basically an older version of Viagra, from China into the states. It's in the book (Americant Pageant 15th Edition.)

Thomas Jefferson founded it -- The University of Virginia.

The actors who portrayed George and Louise Jefferson; the original Lionel Jefferson; Helen and Tom Willis, Mr. Bentley; Ned, the doorman and Mother Jefferson are all deceased.

Thomas Jefferson didn't actively fight in a war. He served as Virginia's governor for two years during the American Revolutionary War.

First, Jefferson requested $2500 from Congress to pay for the costs of the trip. Meriwether Lewis who had been appointed to the rank of Captain, was designated as the expedition "scientist". Prior to the expedition, Jefferson sent Lewis to Philadelphia for intense training by physician Benjamin Rush, astronomer-surveyor Andrew Ellicott, botanist Benjamin Barton, anatomist Casper Wister, and mathematician Robert Patterson. For three months he was tutored in the spring of 1803.

The skills that Lewis learned would be passed on to Clark as they traveled. Prior to the expedition, Clark was in fact Lewis' superior officer and was very experienced in handling boats. Clark had rounded up some men from the mountains to help on the expedition.

he feared strong federal governments and anything that the Constitution did not say they could do

Thomas Jefferson hoped to reduce the size and expense of the federal governments and worked behind the scenes to accomplish his purposes in Congress. He significantly decreased the federal government by getting rid of staff, cutting the deficit, and cutting the army 50%. This reduced the federal bureaucracy, cut taxes and military spending.

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was his biggest accomplishment, but sparked common critique because it went against his republican values of a strict interpretation of the Constitution.

In 1807, Jefferson issued an embargo trying to force France and England to recognize the independent economy of the US, but it backfired by causing huge economic issues that bankrupted many merchants.

Thomas Jefferson was the third President (1801-1809) of the USA.

He wrote and signed the Declaration of Independence, which basically started the American Revolution.

It was based on a loose interpretation of the Constitution because he wasn't really allowed to by the land, and he had to justify his actions by his hopes for the nation

Decienl

jeffersonian republicanism was used to describe the poloitical party that Thomas Jefferson created when running for president agains James Madison. Later the poloitical parties became three different ones. First, Jeffersonians, second, Madisonians, and finally, democrats.

constitution

It would allow farm ownership to continue.

America was too big to be a direct democracy

PRO

Jefferson was one of the most brilliant men ever to serve as president. His interest in geography and natural science helped him to understand the true significance of the Louisiana Territory, and when Napoleon made his fateful offer, Jefferson acted swiftly and decisively to accept it, thereby doubling the land area of the U.S. He then dispatched his personal secretary, Meriwether Lewis, along with William Clark, on a scientific expedition to explore the new territory. (See: "In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark," Chap. 13.)

CON

While undoubtedly a great mind, and perhaps a great man, Jefferson was certainly not a great--or even a particularly effective--president. In purchasing Louisiana from France, he did no more than any other reasonable man might have done in the same situation. Historians have praised him for showing flexibility in his principles of strict constitutional construction and limited presidential authority. What his actions on Louisiana really demonstrate is that these often-enunciated principles were only matters of convenience with Jefferson, used to justify certain ends but then abandoned when they stood in his way. The pronouncements of Jefferson, like those of any other politician, must be taken with a grain of salt.

PRO

Jefferson corrected many of the authoritarian excesses of the Adams administration-ending the celebrated "reign of terror" and returning to the people their rights of free speech and free press.

CON

Here is another prime example of Jeffersonian hypocrisy. The President took a civil libertarian position only when it was convenient for him to do so. His interference in the Aaron Burr treason trial makes even Richard Nixon's much-publicized meddling in the Ellsberg case seem like child's play by comparison. Jefferson was determined to see his former rival hanged as a traitor, and he was ready to abandon all constitutional restraints in the process. He not only announced his opinion that Burr was guilty before the jury could consider the case, but he attempted to bribe witnesses with promises of presidential pardons if only they would testify against Burr. Concerning this case, Jefferson was the author of this incredible statement: "There are extreme cases when the laws become inadequate even to their own preservation, and where the universal resource is a dictator, or martial law."

PRO

Jefferson's cool leadership helped avoid American involvement in the Napoleonic wars that were raging in Europe. At his insistence, an embargo was placed on all American foreign trade, in hopes of forcing the European powers into respecting American maritime rights. Though this policy created considerable economic hardship, it was certainly preferable to a war for which America was woefully unprepared.

CON

Jefferson himself must take responsibility for the difficult position in which he found himself as president. He had cut back the army and navy to such a pitiful level that the European powers could afford to ignore all American threats and requests. Even given this unnecessary situation, the embargo was a hopelessly misguided idea. It forced no concessions from the European powers, while creating widespread unemployment and considerable economic hardship for hundreds of thousands of Americans. Moreover, Jefferson's wholesale arrest of individuals and seizure of cargoes on the merest suspicion of intent to export, once more demonstrates his total disregard for civil liberties. According to Leonard Levy, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning expert on the Constitution: "To this day, the Embargo Act remains the most repressive and unconstitutional legislation ever enacted by Congress in time of peace."

John Locke believed that all people had the natural right to life, liberty, and property. He believed that men are naturally free and equal from the time they are born, and that the government should not have absolute power.

Some of Thomas Jefferson's accomplishments were some of the best ever made in the world. Thomas was the founder of the University of Virginia, and the president of the American Philosophical Society. In 1776, he wrote the Declaration of Independence, which freed the colonies from British rule. Then, in 1801-1804, he was elected the third president of the United States of America, and, after his first term, he was reelected in 1804-1809.

Thomas Jefferson's father was named Peter Jefferson

A failure in his second term was his weak attack on slavery. He made it illegal to bring any more slaves in. But his attack was very weak because more slaves were smuggled in, and the slaves that were already in America had children which increased the slavery population. :) thnx