https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji Made with an aura of great presidency en-us 2017-02-21 14:48:42 UTC 2017-05-17 11:27:57 UTC hello@padlet.com amber_reed1 https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji/wish/156615404 Jefferson decided on economic warfare; an economic strategy based on the use of measures which the primary effect is to weaken the economy of another state.  Jefferson decided on economical Warfare; Congress passed the Embargo Act in 1807. The act was designed to force Britain and France into respecting US neutrality by cutting off all American shipping to either nation.]]> 2017-02-28 03:23:08 UTC https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji/wish/156615404 amber_reed1 https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji/wish/156698309 Jefferson was put in charge of a committee to revise the existing laws of Virginia, making deletions where necessary and additions where appropriate.  Jefferson attacked this system by helping abolish primogeniture and entail, two long-standing traditions that directed inheritances to a single heir.]]> 2017-02-28 13:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji/wish/156698309 amber_reed1 https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji/wish/156700402 Cutting civilian jobs saved thousands of dollars, they could save hundreds of thousands more if they followed federal expenditures, which mostly went to the military.   Jefferson understood that debt was necessary to pay for war and to invest in the public good, but he believed that “neither the representatives of a nation, nor the whole nation itself, assembled can validly engage debts beyond what they may pay in their own time….” ]]> 2017-02-28 13:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji/wish/156700402 amber_reed1 https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji/wish/156712281 Wilson was the nation's first fascist and democrat president mixed together.   Wilson sought war with Germany and purposefully drew the US into World War I.  “I am an advocate of peace, but there are some splendid things that come to a nation through the discipline of war,” said Wilson and he would seek after those progressive “splendid things” when the opportunity of WW I arose.  He was a racist and denied woman's suffrage multiple times, reinstated segregation in the house, and campaigned in Indiana for the sterilization of the mentally challenged. ]]> 2017-02-28 14:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji/wish/156712281 amber_reed1 https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji/wish/157043367 Jefferson served in the Virginia legislature and the Continental Congress and was governor of Virginia. He later served as U.S. minister to France and U.S. secretary of state, and was vice president under John Adams.  We helped write the Declaration of Independence, advocated for free public  education.  Made the Louisiana Purchase. Lastly, he launched the Lewis and Clark Expedition. ]]> 2017-03-01 15:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/amber_reed1/r4xtnmf8l9ji/wish/157043367