EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Founder of the University of Virginia-the first secular university in America
|
|
|
3rd President of America
|
|
|
Author the Declaration of Independence
|
|
|
Author of the Bill of Rights
|
Detailed explanation-1: -So, the Constitution’s framers heeded Thomas Jefferson who argued: “A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference."
Detailed explanation-2: -He slashed Army and Navy expenditures, cut the budget, eliminated the tax on whiskey so unpopular in the West, yet reduced the national debt by a third. He also sent a naval squadron to fight the Barbary pirates, who were harassing American commerce in the Mediterranean.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States and is considered one of President Thomas Jefferson’s greatest presidential accomplishments.
Detailed explanation-4: -Thomas Jefferson hoped that he would be remembered for three accomplishments: his founding of the University of Virginia, his crafting of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and his authorship of the Declaration of Independence.