MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Sold books to the federal government after the British burned there books before
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Sold books
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Sold books to the federal government after the British burned there books
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jefferson retired to Monticello to ponder such projects as his grand designs for the University of Virginia. A French nobleman observed that he had placed his house and his mind “on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe.” He died on July 4, 1826.
Detailed explanation-2: -On December 24, 1851, a fire sweeps through the Library of Congress and destroys two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson’s personal literary collection.
Detailed explanation-3: -By 1814 when the British burned the nation’s Capitol and the Library of Congress, Jefferson had acquired the largest personal collection of books in the United States. Jefferson offered to sell his library to Congress as a replacement for the collection destroyed by the British during the War of 1812.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Jefferson was instrumental in rebuilding the Library of Congress when he sold the bulk of his book collection to the United States government in 1815.