Thomas Jefferson's Presidency from Perspective of 19th Century Citizen

A detailed Summary of Thomas Jefferson's Presidency from Perspective of 19th Century Citizen

It was a great joy of mine to live during the times of Thomas Jefferson. Having not ever met Mr. Jefferson was the one thing that I will forever regret.

It was twenty-seven years ago in 1800 that Thomas Jefferson became President of this splendid land.1 It is still fictitious in my mind to think that Mr. Jefferson passed away seven months ago. My life through the years of Thomas Jefferson's Presidency consisted of days of learning, days of triumph, days of glory.

Thomas Jefferson gained respect in my heart long before the controversial election of 1800. The Bill of Rights is the most powerful document in the world today. With it, we the citizens of the United States have several inalienable rights that cannot be taken from us. One must pray that future generations are able to hold on to these rights. Even before the Bill of Rights was created, Thomas Jefferson was hard at work with fellow countrymen drafting a Declaration of Independence.2 A gut feeling reveals to me that this document will be sacred in the lives of people in decades and centuries to come.

Looking back on the year 1800 brings memories that will most likely never be forgotten in the future. For the first time in our short history, there was a tie in th

of Louisiana according to its ancient and proper limits. This transfer was attended with a suspension of our right of deposit at New Orleans, and opened to us, in the opinion of the President, the prospect of a complete reversal of all our friendly relations with France. Apparently there was no provision to allow for such a deal to be made by the President. Because of Mr. Jefferson's wit and intelligence, he was able to overcome the Federalists and carry through with the purchase of a vast square mileage of property. While this territorial purchase was a major accomplishment during Thomas Jefferson's first term, it is my opinion that his tax cuts helped my family more than anything.

6. Beilenson, Nick. Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Visions. Peter Pauper. 1998.

Like myself, Thomas Jefferson was a isolationist. He did not want to get involved with the affairs of Napoleonic France or England. As a substitute for war, an embargo was the choice of a lesser evil in place of a greater, and at the same time annoyed the belligerent powers more than could have been done by open warfare.7 England felt it in her manufactures by privations of the raw material, in her maritime interests by the loss of her naval stores, and above all in the discontinuance of supplies essential to her colonies. Our commerce was the second in the world, our carrying trade the very first, and had the restraint upon them been rigidly observed, it might have inclined the European nations to justice. But the popular opposition was so great and so daring that it was found impracticable to enforce obedience without provoking violence and insurrection. The consequence was that the practical efficacy of the embargo as an engine of coercion proved far less than the reasonab!

2. Peterson, Merrill. Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation. Oxford Press. 1986.

The re-election campaign for Mr. Jefferson was without much battle. The one regret my family has is our residence in Delaware, one of two states that Mr. Jefferson lost the electoral vote in. Mr. Jefferson was given a fit by his previous Vice President Aaron Burr in 1807. Mr. Burr thought it to be a wise idea

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