USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Thomas Jefferson’s book, Note on the State of Virginia, he argued for the United Stated to be founded on an agrarian ideology. In the excerpt we read for class today, Jefferson called for an American economy built on agriculture and to “let the work-shops” remain in Europe” (Jefferson, 18).

Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the ideal economy was an agrarian society led by cultivators. According to him, those who labored in the earth were the chosen people of God, and the farmer who owned land and raised his own subsistence did not need to depend on the casualties and caprice of customers.

Detailed explanation-3: -He was zealous about the need for farmers to share innovative ideas, improved crops, and new machinery. He invented a more efficient plow but never patented his design so that other farmers could freely benefit from the idea.

Detailed explanation-4: -National economic vision Jefferson believed that liberty and democracy were the greatest virtues a society could strive toward. To that end, he thought an agrarian society made up of independent farmers was best; the “Empire of Liberty, ” he called it.

Detailed explanation-5: -Democratic-Republicans favored keeping the U.S. economy based on agriculture and said that the U.S. should serve as the agricultural provider for the rest of the world.