MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Granting voting rights to all adult citizens.
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Promoting the nation’s agriculture rather than industrialization.
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Expanding the nation’s territory to the Pacific coast.
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Making the United States a major military power.
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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: -Jefferson’s goal was, indeed, to create a new kind of government, a Republican government wholly unlike the centralized, corrupt, patronage-ridden one against which Americans had rebelled in 1776.
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: -Jefferson deplored the environmental damages caused by coal burning factories. He believed that factory work created dependent families, and he believed that industrialization would create a society skin to the one that plunged France into its bloodiest internal conflict.
Detailed explanation-5: -How successful was Thomas Jefferson as president in achieving his goal of simplifying the government? Thomas Jefferson was a very successful president. He got the Louisiana Purchase and he also made a Republican Democratic nation.