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Thomas Jefferson's face is on Mt. Rushmore  in Keystone, SD
(Not his literal face )

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He was an Archaeologist

He was obsessed with books.

He was an architect and detailed the floor of the Monticello after inheriting land from his father.

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Jefferson's dog was a Briard

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He grew up highly educated, He was born into a family that was closely related to some of the most prominent and wealthy people living in Virginia at that time.

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Some of Jefferson’s failures is he owned a slave, and didn’t try to bring slavery to an end.

Yet he quoted in the Declaration of Independence, “All men are equal” but yet he owned a slave.

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Jefferson’s most successful accomplishment was the Louisiana Purchase.

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First order of business for him as President was the establishment of a "wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another" but which would otherwise leave them alone to regulate their own affairs.

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Thomas Jefferson promised to govern as he felt the Founders intended, based on decentralized government and trust in the people to make the right decisions for themselves.

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Slavery is ended in the Northwest Territory, stemming from the Ordinance of 1787 establishing the territory and written by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had proposed that all slavery be prohibited by the year 1800, but that proposal had been defeated by one vote.

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In Nov, 1, 1800, U.S. President John Adams is the first President to live in the White House, then known as the Executive Mansion and sixteen days later, the United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C. He would be defeated for the presidency by December 6 by Thomas Jefferson.

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The Natchez Trace post route, following an old trail running from Nashville, Tennessee to Natchez, Mississippi, is established by an Act of Congress.

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Thomas Jefferson was a Draftsman and was the first secretary of state before becoming president.

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Thomas Jefferson ran against Aaron Burr for the Election of the 1800s.

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Which Political Party did Thomas Jefferson belong to?
He belong to the
Democratic-Republican.

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Jefferson became and was a guy like this from 1801-1809

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April 14th, 1743 - July 4th, 1826