Jefferson's status as a Virginia aristocrat gave him the two most important things to become an educated man, which was a difficult thing to become during that time. Those two things, time and the resources, allowed him to educate himself in history, literature, law, architecture, science, and philosophy. He also had a great deal of influence on his ideals that came directly from the European culture and thought because he had been a diplomat and friend of French and British intellectuals.

Jefferson was born on the thirteenth day of April of the year 1743 at Shadwell in Goochland (now in Albemarle) Co., Virginia, which was at the time considered a western outpost and was to remain as Jefferson's lifelong home. He was the son of Peter Jefferson and Jane Randolph Jef

Jefferson's most famous act came during his time as a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in the years 1775 to 1776. Although the Declaration of Independence was given to a committee to draft, the document was the wholly work of Jefferson except for the minor altercations by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and the others on the floor or the Congress.

As months had passed, glimmerings of a possible deal between France and the United States started to fade away. However, with the costly French failure in Santo Domingo to put down the revolt and causing Napoleon I to reconsider his plan of making Hispaniola the keystone of his colonial empire, Louisiana soon became of diminishing importance to the French. Also, with the imminence of the renewed war with Great Britain, the financial status of France also started diminish. So, in the year 1803, Napoleon decided to offer for sale to the United States the entire Louisiana Territory. Even though the two American ministers, Livingston and Monroe were not given the instructions or the authority to purchase the whole entire Louisiana, the negotiations with Barbe„S-Marbois who was acting for Napoleon, soon moved into a conclusion.

Now that this conflict had risen in the west, a man by the name of Robert R. Livingston, U.S. minister at Paris was instructed by Jefferson to take two steps in resolving this lost right of using the Mississippi River. The first step was to approach Napoleon's minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, with the object of preventing the retrocession in the event this act had not yet been completed. The second was to try to purchase at least New Orleans if the property had actually been transferred from Spain to France. With the orders and the two million dollars granted by Congress to secure their objective, Livingston, with appointed minister James Monroe went ahead with President Jefferson's orders, however the negotiations ended up being impossible.

During Jefferson's first term as president, a major presidential achievement sparked because of his lifelong interest in the West and in American-French relations. This achievement was the Louisiana Purchase in the year 1803. This was the greatest land bargain in the history of the United States. The results from this purchase doubled the size of the United States and greatly improved the strength of the country materially and strate

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