Assignment #09: Washington to Jefferson
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Assignment #09: Washington to Jefferson
Section A: Professor’s Lecture: Analysis of American Presidents
What is your impression of the first three American Presidents? Can you see how their presidencies helped to shape the country? Compare and contrast each of the three presidents. Which one was more successful at their leadership? Why? Who struggled the most as president?
Section B: American Yawp Textbook and Video
Please select (at least) one of the following options:
Option #01: What are three new things you learned in the American Yawp textbook that you did not know or were not aware of? Why do you think they are important for us to know?
Option #02: What about your reaction to the video? What are three new things you learned from it? What does “Jefferson’s Vision” mean?
Section C: Personal Reflections
Imagine if we could teleport Thomas Jefferson to the present day. Other than the most obvious things, how do you think Jefferson would have reacted to our country’s treatment of the US Constitution? What about the treatment of farmers and our views on whom we consider successful in this country?
I personally think he would have loved the Internet and the use of computers for writing. The idea of saving your words and making multiple copies would be something to catch his attention. Did you know that Jefferson was also an architect and inventor? (As many of the founding fathers were). He invented a device that would hold a quill (pen and ink) and write a duplicate letter as the person wrote. This is why we know so much about the founding fathers and this time in our US history. They kept copies of just about every correspondence, contract, or law. I suspect they had an idea that the future generations would be curious about them.
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