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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783

GEORGE WASHINGTONS LEADERSHIP AT TRENTON SARATOGA VALLEY FORGE

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“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people, enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve it, and it requires no very high degree of education to convince them of this. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.-After all, it is my principle that the will of the majority should prevail. If they approve the proposed constitution in all it’s parts, I shall concur in it chearfully, in hopes they will amend it whenever they shall find it works wrong. This reliance cannot deceive us, as long as we remain virtuous; and I think we shall be that, as long as agriculture is our principal object, which will be the case while there remain vacant lands in any part of America. When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become corrupt as in Europe, and go to eating one another as they do there."What is the main idea of the author of this excerpt?
A
The wealthy should rule the United States, because they are the only people educated well enough to make good decisions in government.
B
Educate all of the people, and they will make good decisions in governing themselves. All people have the right to equal education, and the right to rule themselves.
C
We should become a nation modeled after the governments of Europe.
D
The average person doesn’t need an education, they can find good work and a good living workin as laborers in the cities, just as they do in Europe.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The title of today’s post, “Educate and inform the mass of the people, ” is featured in the mural and has been attributed to a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison on December 20, 1787.

Detailed explanation-2: -"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal. . . .” “it is the great parent of science & of virtue: and that a nation will be great in both, always in proportion as it is free.” “our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."

Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Jefferson believed only educated citizens could make the American experiment in self-government succeed. He proposed a system of broad, free, public education for men and women alike that was radical in his day and his founding of the University of Virginia partially achieved his larger goals.

Detailed explanation-4: -Constitution. The Constitution defines the framework of the Federal Government of the United States.

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