USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -a philosophy advocated by President Thomas Jefferson in which a rural society is seen as superior to an urban society. It values the independent farmer as superior to the paid laborer.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Jefferson opposed large-scale industry. “Manufacturing, ” he said “breeds lords and Aristocrats, poor men and slaves.” [Correction here. See Note below.] He fostered transportation systems, and he envisioned a widespread, diversified technology.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Jefferson adamantly advocated for the founding of this country to be based on agriarian ideals. Agrarianism supports working on land in ways that can last (Freyfogle xvii) due to its focus on the interconnectedness of life (Freyfogle xix).

Detailed explanation-5: -As Thomas Jefferson saw it, the political ideal of a democratic and self-governing nation, is best entrusted to a society that is predominantly agrarian-in other words, a community of small, self-sufficient family farms.