>>>>>>My group and I are giving a presentation, I just need you to summarize everything I will write below.
-Before we get started, I want everyone to close their eyes and imagine how our world would be without the declaration of independence.
– So as you guys can imagine, that would be a hard life to live in, none of us would be able to sit in class today. The declaration of independence is the nation’s most celebrated symbol of liberty. Jefferson’s writing was powerful and significant to the development of American History and gave a sense of voice to the Colonial struggle.
Thomas Jefferson Biography
April 13, 1743 -July 4, 1826
Presidential term: March 4, 1801 – March 4, 1809
-Authored one of the most memorable statements in American history the declaration of independence
-Composed work in 1776 under the watchful eyes of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and the rest of the continental congress who spent two and a half days going over every word
-Jefferson was selected to craft the actual wording because of the grace of his writing style
-Jefferson rose to eminence in a time of great political upheaval, by the time he took a seat in the Virginia legislature in 1769, the colony was already on the course toward revolution.
-His pamphlet “A Summary View of the Rights of British America” (1774) brought him to the attention of those who were agitating for independence and established him as an ardent rebublican and revolutionary.
-One of the greatest achievements during his two terms (1801-1809) in his office was his negotiation of the Louisanna purchase, in which the United States acquired from France 828,000 sq miles of land west of the Mississippi for about 15 million.
-Fundamental paradoxes of Jefferson’s personal and political life has been his attitude toward slavery. 1784 he tried to abolish slavery in the Western territories but failed by one vote because historians have pointed out that Jerfferson probably had an affair with Sally Hemmings, a mixed slave and had children with her.
– Jefferson’s accomplishments from politics to agriculture and mechanical invention, still stand.
Cultural aspects
Education
Values
- Thomas Jefferson started school and learned different foreign languages at a very young age.
- The sons of a planter would be taught the basics at home. The boys studied higher math, Greek, Latin, science, the sons of wealthy planters often were sent to boarding schools in England for higher education to study law or medicine or they would return home to help their fathers run the plantation.
- Girls learned enough reading and writing to read their Bibles and be able to record household expenses.They studied art, music, needlework, spinning, weaving, cooking, and nursing. The girls did not have the opportunity to go to England for higher education because this was not considered important for them.
- The tutor or governess had more authority over their students than teachers do today. They could spank or whip the students or sit them in the corner if they misbehaved. When a student talked too much, the tutor placed a whispering stick in the talkative student’s mouth.
- To Jefferson, education is the key to success. He wanted to bring the best course of study for the people in his hometown
- He expresses that: “His goal was to establish in the upper & healthier country, & more centrally for the state, a University on a plan so broad & liberal…worth patronizing with the public support”
- That’s how the University of Virginia was founded. Even after retiring from his presidency, he still wanted to establish the university as soon as possible
- Political
- ● The period surrounding the Civil War saw a decline in Jefferson’s prestige.
● It seemed that Jefferson’s idea for a new republic based on the power of the
individual and the states had failed because a stable centralized government
was needed for the preservation of democracy instead.● Jefferson’s image faded into the recesses of American political and social
thought● What became apparent in the heated political rhetoric surrounding the Civil War
was that Jefferson represented two conflicting impulses in America: the
preservation of a free democracy and the preservation of states’ rights.● The Jefferson image proved to be a malleable political talisman, passionately
wielded by abolitionists and slavery advocates No matter his words, Jefferson’s
actions had always been in support of slavery; abolitionists took up the
Declaration of Independence as their battle testament.● To this day, Jefferson’s life symbolizes the struggle with issues of race and
society with which every American● The founding fathers saw America as having in its power the ability to begin
the world over by discovering the “constant and universal principles”
of government.● The American system incorporated the concept of the natural rights of man,
existing independently of government.● The government was limited by constitutions and by its representative nature;
it was to be responsive and responsible to the people.● The primary purpose of government, according to the Declaration, was to secure
man’s inalienable rights-life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and other
values sought were unity and public virtue. These values expressed and
reflected the social conditions of early America. - Socially
and 4th of July●
Have you ever wondered why we celebrate the Fourth of
July?●
Many people think we celebrate the Fourth of July because
it is the day, we received our Independence from England.●
Let’s go back to the 18th century when the United States
was called colonies.●
People traveled from England to settle in America.●
Eventually,
differences in life, thoughts, and interests caused the split between Britain
and America.●
The colonies were allowed to develop freely without any
interface from Britain.●
Britain suddenly decided to take more control over the
colonies.●
Britain decided that the colonies needed to return the
revenue to the mother country and they needed to pay for the colonies’ defense
provided by Britain.●
The colonies did not agree, they felt that since they were
not represented in Parliament, they shouldn’t have to pay any kind of taxes to
the mother country, according to the saying “no taxation without
representation”.●
When Britain continued to tax, the colonies formed the
First Continental Congress to persuade the British government to recognize
their rights.●
When this didn’t work a war was declared.●
Many people decided that enough was enough and that it’s
time to unite the colonies and to stand together against Britain.●
All thirteen colonies stood behind the Declaration of
Independence and adopted it on 4 of July, 1776.●
We celebrate the Fourth of July because it was the day
that the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of
Independence.●
The Fourth of July became a holiday and a historic event
all Americans celebrate. - Declaration
In the life of Thomas
Jefferson, the defining event took place in 1776 when he drafted the
Declaration of Independence. He was appointed by the Continental Congress in a
committee consists of five individual to draft an independence declaration;
though, he wanted to return to Virginia for assisting in writing the
constitution of that state. Subsequently, he wanted to return to making a draft
document for its consideration. A stunning was written by Jefferson for the
rights of the colonies to rebel in contradiction of the British government,
along with establishing their own base with the idea that every man is equally
created and has the absolute rights of liberty and life.Jefferson played a
key role in making a number of revisions in the Americal Revolution’s defining
document. In the document, Jefferson made some critical changes. He removed a
long paragraph that was about the slave trade’s responsibility to British King
George III. Jefferson found himself justly proud of the key role he played in
writing the independence declaration. For this hallowed, he proficiently
defended his authorship.
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