Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson was Martha's second husband. Prior to her first marriage, to Bathurst Skelton, who passed away just two years into their marriage, in his 24th year, Martha's maiden name was Wayles.

Thomas Jefferson's dilemma was the Barbary pirates on the Barbary coast.

Louisiana Purchase. Territory of the United States Napoleon needed peace with Great Britain to implement the Treaty of San Ildefonso and take possession of Louisiana. Otherwise, Louisiana would be an easy prey for Britain or even or the U.S. But in early 1803, war between France and Britain seemed unavoidable

Thomas Jefferson favored the working class citizens. Thomas Jefferson was all for settlements for farmers and rural expansion in America.

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Thomas Jefferson was one of the main authors of the American Declaration of Independence. He was also the third president of the United States.

George Washington was inaugurated in New York City

alexander hamilton wanted a government only governed by few elite men while jefferson wanted it to be ruled by more so there was no corruption in the government. Alexander saw people as selfish while jefferson wasa a believer in the "common man"

While Adams was president there was an effort made to discredit his presidency. One of the major rifts between Adams and Jefferson was that Jefferson wanted the U.S. to get involved in the French Revolution because France helped out the colonists in their fight for independence. Adams felt that the U.S. was not prepared to go to war so soon after the revolution and that France's revolution was not a fight for liberty. Another issue was that Adams favored a strong federal government while Jefferson preferred having more of a loose confederacy instead of power being concentrated in one place with the federal government having authority over state and local governments. Jefferson's arguments basically was favored by more people since they felt that a federal government with too much power over state government would not be too dissimilar from what they had before the revolution. Another issue was one of personality, Adams was a man with a very bad temper who always seemed to portray himself as a victim, on a personal level he was less likable then Jefferson.

Monticello is what Jefferson called his plantation home near Charlottesville, Virginia. He had a smaller home called Poplar Forest, near Lynchburg, VA. Both have been restored and are open to visitors for a fee.
The house he lived in.

The struggles Thomas Jefferson faced were many. First of all, he had to make sure that the reasons for independence were practical and not like "We should get independence because I say so". Also, he had to say things that would not get the king angry and attack with stronger forces. Finally when he was finished and it was revised, the Declaration was signed and approved.

Sally Hemmings is most well-known as being one of Thomas Jefferson's slaves, with whom he had and affair while he was marrid. What is less well-known is that she was a half-sister to Thomas Jefferson's wife. Jefferson's wife's father had had an affair with one of his own black slaves. Sally Hemmings is the child born of that affair.

John Locke was known to influence Thomas Jefferson while he was writing the Declaration of Independenc. He rewrote John Lockes qoute "life liberty and property" to be "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness".

Prior to becoming president, Jefferson accepted a gift from Robert Morris, financier of the Revolution. In 1795, the son of a ram smuggled out of Spain by the captain of one of Morris's ships arrived at Monticello, where he exercised sole dominion over the sheep pastures for seven years and was succeeded by his own offspring.

While president, Thomas Jefferson received some unusual pet presents when he sent several expeditions out west to explore some land the U.S. had just purchased from France (the Louisiana Purchase). He asked them to send back some samples of what they found. They didn't just send plants; Captain Zebulon Pike sent two grizzly bear cubs. When they outgrew their cages, they roamed around the White House lawn with the peacocks, partridges, and mockingbirds.

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Thomas Jefferson did have the nickname "Red Fox".

The Declaration of Independence is organized into several sections, each serving a different purpose. There are generally considered to be five parts of the Declaration of Independence, according to the National Archives' description on its website. But many persons have critiqued the document and some feel that there are any number of different parts. In view of the discrepancy on what, in one sense, is just a matter of opinion depending on the person giving it, I will go with the National Archives' opinion and leave it to readers to form their own opinions. The parts are: 1. The Introduction. This is the opening paragraph; a single sentence beginning with "We the People..." It is sometime erroneously referred to as the Preamble, probably because the opening paragraph of the US Constitution is referred to as the Preamble to the Constitution. 2. The Preamble. The second paragraph, which begins with "We hold theses truths to be self-evident. The Preamble sets the logic al argument that people have rights, that people form governments to secure those rights and when a government becomes destructive of those rights, the people have a right and a duty to throw off that government. 3. The Indictment of King George III. The list of wrongs the King has done to show the ways in which the King has abused the rights of the colonists. 4. The Denunciation of the British people. A statement announcing not only the separation of colonial government from British government, but colonial people from British people. 5. Conclusion. The Declaration of Independence from the King and his British peoples is the only logical conclusion to be taken from the above. What could lead to the different opinions on the number of parts. For one, the "Introduction" is mistakenly called the Preamble, the way the first paragraph of the Constitution is called. Admittedly, calling the second paragraph the "Preamble" seems wrong, but that is what the National Archives says. Some split the last two paragraphs into "Conclusion" and "Declaration" instead of calling both just the "Conclusion". Some combine the indictment of the king and the denunciation of the British peoples as one section.

Thomas Jefferson got his ideas from John Locke, who believed that people were born with certain natural rights of life, liberty, and property; that people formed government to protect those rights; and that a government interfering with these rights will be overthrown.

The opinions of Jefferson and Hamilton about the public differed because Jefferson was more a man of the people who felt that people should not have debt, and that it only hurt them and the country as a whole. On the other hand Hamilton had a plan that depended on a certain amount of the actual public debt itself, so he did not want to get rid of it.

Jefferson was against this act, passed in 1798. He campaigned against and won the election of 1800. The act was allowed to expire. He was the vice-president in 1798 and did not punish anybody.

At the time, the winner of the election became President and whoever placed 2nd was VP. Jefferson placed 2nd behind Adams.