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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson faced several obstacles while he was President. One obstacle was trying to stop the midnight appointments of former President John Adams. John Adams appointed many federalists as...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson faced several obstacles while he was president. One of those obstacles dealt with events at home. Jefferson was a Democratic-Republican. The courts had many judges who were...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
The short answer is that the primary cause of the War of 1812 was the British putting in place extraordinary maritime measures to prevent the American business interests from trading with other...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
One of the first major obstacles Jefferson faced was the responsibility to draft an acceptable first version of the Declaration of Independence. There were a variety of competing interests involved...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson’s election in 1800 can be called the “Revolution of 1800” because it was the first time in America’s short history that power passed from one political party to the other....
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
In this controversy, Jefferson interpreted the Constitution very strictly while Hamilton interpreted it loosely. Jefferson argued that anything that the Constitution did not explicitly allow could...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
The election of 1800 is considered a turning point in history because it marked the first time that power was peacefully transferred from one political party to another. The sitting president, John...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
The presidential election of 1800 is often called the "Revolution of 1800." It was one of the most important elections in our history. The reason for this is that this election led to a transfer...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Foreign events impacted the United States during the presidencies of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. One example of this was the acquisition of the Louisiana Territory. The United States wanted...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson made his First Inaugural Address on March 4 1801 after being elected the third president of the United States. According to his speech, the sacred principle of the government was...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson's vision of the United States was that it would be a nation of small farmers. This is somewhat strange given that he owned a large plantation but he, nonetheless, believed that...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
The term “peaceable coercion is most often connected to the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. It was President Jefferson’s approach to trying to get European countries to respect the rights of...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson is generally viewed as a very good or even great president. However, there were some shortcomings or failures during his presidency. One of the failures is that Jefferson owned...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
The most important political development which took place during the Jefferson administration was the Louisiana Purchase. The United States grew considerably after this purchase from Napoleon...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
John Adam's domestic policy is largely overshadowed by and was also influenced by foreign difficulties. The major domestic action of his administration was passage of the infamous Alien and...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
When Thomas Jefferson became President, after the House of Representatives broke the tie between Aaron Burr and Jefferson, he had specific goals he wanted to accomplish as President. Jefferson...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Jefferson was the champion of agrarian interests and the idea that the power in a democracy resided with the common people of the republic. He opposed the idea that elitists should run the...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third President of the United States, faced many challenges, both personal and moral in nature. First, his beloved wife, Martha, died in 1782 at age 33 as a result...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson was our third president. He had many issues with which to deal while he was president. Most people give Thomas Jefferson good reviews on his two-term presidency. Thomas Jefferson...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
"The Revolution of 1800" generally refers to the election of Thomas Jefferson as President of the United States in 1800. Jefferson was the third President, after Washington and Adams. The...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
In his First Inaugural Address, Jefferson lays out a role for the federal government that is very similar to the role that he put forth in the Declaration of Independence. He argues that the main...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote that "all men were created equal" in the Declaration of Independence, had his own definition of equality. Jefferson did not view slaves nor Native Americans as...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Jefferson is sometimes viewed as one of the ideological fathers of the American Revolution, chiefly due to his authorship of "A Summary View of the Rights of British America" in 1774, and of course...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
The election of 1800 may well have been one of the most important in our entire history. This is because it was the first election in which the political party that had been in power lost and had...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
Since this question asks what Thomas Jefferson did “to” America and not what he did “for” America, I would say that the best answer is that Jefferson more than doubled the size of the...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
One part of the case to be made for Jefferson being considered an ideological president was that he was the first Republican elected to the position. Jefferson was a major force behind the...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
The election of 1800 caused significant damage to relationships that had been developed in the past. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were no longer seeing events the same way. Jefferson favored a...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
There are a couple of historical elements of importance in the election of 1800. The first would be that it was the first Presidential election in American History where a Democratic- Republican,...
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Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
The presidential election of 1800 was notable for being the first partisan contest in American political history. The campaign was extremely bitter and rancorous, with insults, smears, and personal...