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Thomas Jefferson

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He had intended to pay off some of his large debt, but he resumed collecting for his personal library, writing to John Adams , "I cannot live without books. Jefferson was admitted to the Virginia bar in and then lived with his mother at Shadwell. He introduced legislation in allowing masters to take control over the emancipation of slaves, taking discretion away from the royal governor and General Court.

He persuaded his cousin Richard Bland to spearhead the legislation's passage, but reaction was strongly negative.

Jefferson took seven cases for freedom-seeking slaves [28] and waived his fee for one client, who claimed that he should be freed before the statutory age of thirty-one required for emancipation in cases with inter-racial grandparents. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the author of nature, because it is necessary for his own sustenance. As a consolation, Jefferson gave his client some money, conceivably used to aid his escape shortly thereafter.

Netherland , Bolling v. Bolling , and Blair v. The British Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts in , and Jefferson wrote a resolution calling for a "Day of Fasting and Prayer" in protest, as well as a boycott of all British goods. His resolution was later expanded into A Summary View of the Rights of British America , in which he argued that people have the right to govern themselves.

He moved into the South Pavilion in Turning Monticello into a neoclassical masterpiece in the Palladian style was his perennial project. Biographer Dumas Malone described the marriage as the happiest period of Jefferson's life. Martha "Patsy" — ; Jane — ; a son who lived for only a few weeks in ; Mary Wayles "Polly" — ; Lucy Elizabeth — ; and another Lucy Elizabeth — The debts took Jefferson years to satisfy, contributing to his financial problems.

Martha later suffered from ill health, including diabetes, and frequent childbirth further weakened her. Her mother had died young, and Martha lived with two stepmothers as a girl. A few months after the birth of her last child, she died on September 6, , at the age of 33 with Jefferson at her bedside.

Shortly before her death, Martha made Jefferson promise never to marry again, telling him that she could not bear to have another mother raise her children. He emerged after three weeks, taking long rambling rides on secluded roads with his daughter Martha, by her description "a solitary witness to many a violent burst of grief". After working as Secretary of State —93 , he returned to Monticello and initiated a remodeling based on the architectural concepts which he had acquired in Europe. The work continued throughout most of his presidency, being finished in Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

The document's social and political ideals were proposed by Jefferson before the inauguration of Washington. He was inspired by the Enlightenment ideals of the sanctity of the individual, as well as by the writings of Locke and Montesquieu. He sought out John Adams, an emerging leader of the Congress. The committee initially thought that Adams should write the document, but Adams persuaded the committee to choose Jefferson. Jefferson consulted with other committee members over the next seventeen days, and drew on his own proposed draft of the Virginia Constitution , George Mason 's draft of the Virginia Declaration of Rights , and other sources.

The declaration was introduced on Friday, June 28, and congress began debate over its contents on Monday, July 1, [51] resulting in the omission of a fourth of the text, including a passage critical of King George III and the slave trade. In , Jefferson was given the task of revising the state's laws. He drafted bills in three years, including laws to streamline the judicial system. Jefferson's proposed statutes provided for general education, which he considered the basis of "republican government". He took the lead in abolishing what he called "feudal and unnatural distinctions.

The entail laws made it perpetual: As a result, increasingly large plantations, worked by white tenant farmers and by black slaves, gained in size and wealth and political power in the eastern "Tidewater" tobacco areas.

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Jefferson was elected governor for one-year terms in and During General Benedict Arnold 's invasion of Virginia, Jefferson escaped Richmond just ahead of the British forces, and the city was burned to the ground. Jefferson escaped to Poplar Forest , his plantation to the west. In April of the same year, his daughter Lucy died at age one. A second daughter of that name was born the following year, but she died at age three. Jefferson included his written responses in a book, Notes on the State of Virginia Jefferson included extensive data about the state's natural resources and economy, and wrote at length about slavery, miscegenation , and his belief that blacks and whites could not live together as free people in one society because of justified resentments of the enslaved.

Notes was first published in in French and appeared in English in Peterson described it as an accomplishment for which all Americans should be grateful. The United States formed a Congress of the Confederation following victory in the Revolutionary War and a peace treaty with Great Britain in , to which Jefferson was appointed as a Virginia delegate. He was a member of the committee setting foreign exchange rates and recommended an American currency based on the decimal system which was adopted.

In the Congress's —84 session, Jefferson acted as chairman of committees to establish a viable system of government for the new Republic and to propose a policy for the settlement of the western territories. Jefferson was the principal author of the Land Ordinance of , whereby Virginia ceded to the national government the vast area that it claimed northwest of the Ohio River. He insisted that this territory should not be used as colonial territory by any of the thirteen states, but that it should be divided into sections which could become states.

He plotted borders for nine new states in their initial stages and wrote an ordinance banning slavery in all the nation's territories.

Congress made extensive revisions, including rejection of the ban on slavery. No man can replace him. Jefferson had Patsy educated at the Pentemont Abbey. In , he met and fell in love with Maria Cosway , an accomplished—and married—Italian-English musician of They saw each other frequently over a period of six weeks. She returned to Great Britain, but they maintained a lifelong correspondence.

Jefferson sent for his youngest surviving child, nine-year-old Polly, in June , who was accompanied on her voyage by a young slave from Monticello, Sally Hemings. Jefferson had taken her older brother James Hemings to Paris as part of his domestic staff, and had him trained in French cuisine. While in France, Jefferson became a regular companion of the Marquis de Lafayette , a French hero of the American Revolutionary War , and Jefferson used his influence to procure trade agreements with France.

He was in Paris during the storming of the Bastille [94] and consulted with Lafayette while the latter drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Soon after returning from France, Jefferson accepted Washington's invitation to serve as Secretary of State. Jefferson opposed a national debt, preferring that each state retire its own, in contrast to Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton , who desired consolidation of various states' debts by the federal government.

Jefferson later left the cabinet voluntarily; Washington never forgave him, and never spoke to him again. The second major issue was the capital's permanent location. Hamilton favored a capital close to the major commercial centers of the Northeast, while Washington, Jefferson, and other agrarians wanted it located to the south.

Jefferson had been suffering from migraines and he was tired of Hamilton in-fighting. Historians recognize this letter as the earliest delineation of Democratic-Republican Party principles. Seeking a return to private life, Jefferson resigned the cabinet position in December , perhaps to bolster his political influence from outside the administration.

After the Washington administration negotiated the Jay Treaty with Great Britain , Jefferson saw a cause around which to rally his party and organized a national opposition from Monticello. Jefferson warned that it would increase British influence and subvert republicanism, calling it "the boldest act [Hamilton and Jay] ever ventured on to undermine the government". Jefferson continued his pro-French stance; during the violence of the Reign of Terror , he declined to disavow the revolution: In the presidential campaign of , Jefferson lost the electoral college vote to Federalist John Adams by 71—68 and was elected vice president because of a mistake in voting for Adams's running mate.

As presiding officer of the Senate, he assumed a more passive role than his predecessor John Adams. He allowed the Senate to freely conduct debates and confined his participation to procedural issues, which he called an "honorable and easy" role. After Adams's initial peace envoys were rebuffed, Jefferson and his supporters lobbied for the release of papers related to the incident, called the XYZ Affair after the letters used to disguise the identities of the French officials involved.

During the Adams presidency, the Federalists rebuilt the military, levied new taxes, and enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts. Jefferson believed that these laws were intended to suppress Democratic-Republicans, rather than prosecute enemy aliens, and considered them unconstitutional. Jefferson advocated nullification , allowing states to invalidate federal laws altogether.

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Historian Ron Chernow claims that "the theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions was deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion", contributing to the American Civil War as well as later events. Jefferson and Madison moved to Philadelphia and founded the National Gazette in , along with poet and writer Phillip Freneau , in an effort to counter Hamilton's Federalist policies, which Hamilton was promoting through the influential Federalist newspaper the Gazette of the United States. The National Gazette made particular criticism of the policies promoted by Alexander Hamilton, often through anonymous essays signed by the pen name Brutus at Jefferson's urging, which were actually written by Madison.

Jefferson had always admired Washington's leadership skills but felt that his Federalist party was leading the country in the wrong direction. Jefferson thought it wise not to attend his funeral in because of acute differences with Washington while serving as Secretary of State, and remained at Monticello. In the presidential election, Jefferson contended once more against Federalist John Adams.

Adams's campaign was weakened by unpopular taxes and vicious Federalist infighting over his actions in the Quasi-War. Republicans ultimately won more electoral college votes, but Jefferson and his vice presidential candidate Aaron Burr unexpectedly received an equal total. Due to the tie, the election was decided by the Federalist-dominated House of Representatives. On February 17, , after thirty-six ballots, the House elected Jefferson president and Burr vice president. The win was marked by Republican celebrations throughout the country. The transition proceeded smoothly, marking a watershed in American history.

As historian Gordon S. Wood writes, "it was one of the first popular elections in modern history that resulted in the peaceful transfer of power from one 'party' to another. In contrast to his predecessors, Jefferson exhibited a dislike of formal etiquette; he arrived alone on horseback without escort, dressed plainly [] and, after dismounting, retired his own horse to the nearby stable. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists. Jefferson pardoned several of those imprisoned under the Alien and Sedition Acts.

A subsequent appointment battle led to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Marbury v. Madison , asserting judicial review over executive branch actions. Jefferson strongly felt the need for a national military university, producing an officer engineering corps for a national defense based on the advancement of the sciences, rather than having to rely on foreign sources for top grade engineers with questionable loyalty. The Act documented in 29 sections a new set of laws and limits for the military. Jefferson was also hoping to bring reform to the Executive branch, replacing Federalists and active opponents throughout the officer corps to promote Republican values.

American merchant ships had been protected from Barbary Coast pirates by the Royal Navy when the states were British colonies. Jefferson had opposed paying tribute to the Barbary States since Navy fleet under Commodore Richard Dale to make a show of force in the Mediterranean, the first American naval squadron to cross the Atlantic. Consul to Tunis , to lead a force to restore the pasha's older brother to the throne. Jefferson ordered five separate naval bombardments of Tripoli, leading the pasha to sign a treaty that restored peace in the Mediterranean.

Spain ceded ownership of the Louisiana territory in to the more predominant France. Jefferson was greatly concerned that Napoleon 's broad interests in the vast territory would threaten the security of the continent and Mississippi River shipping. He wrote that the cession "works most sorely on the U. It completely reverses all the political relations of the U. Livingston to negotiate with Napoleon to purchase New Orleans and adjacent coastal areas from France.

Napoleon realized that French military control was impractical over such a vast remote territory, and he was in dire need of funds for his wars on the home front. The sale also significantly curtailed British and French imperial ambitions in North America, removing obstacles to U. Most thought that this was an exceptional opportunity, despite Republican reservations about the Constitutional authority of the federal government to acquire land.

After the purchase, Jefferson preserved the region's Spanish legal code and instituted a gradual approach for integrating settlers into American democracy. He believed that a period of federal rule would be necessary while Louisianians adjusted to their new nation. Frederick Jackson Turner called the purchase the most formative event in American history.

Jefferson anticipated further westward settlements due to the Louisiana Purchase and arranged for the exploration and mapping of the uncharted territory. He sought to establish a U. The expedition lasted from May to September see Timeline and obtained a wealth of scientific and geographic knowledge, including knowledge of many Indian tribes.

In addition to the Corps of Discovery, Jefferson organized three other western expeditions: All three produced valuable information about the American frontier. Jefferson's experiences with the American Indians began during his boyhood in Virginia and extended through his political career and into his retirement. He refuted the contemporary notion that Indians were an inferior people and maintained that they were equal in body and mind to people of European descent. As governor of Virginia during the Revolutionary War, Jefferson recommended moving the Cherokee and Shawnee tribes, who had allied with the British, to west of the Mississippi River.

But when he took office as president, he quickly took measures to avert another major conflict, as American and Indian societies were in collision and the British were inciting Indian tribes from Canada. This facilitated his policy of western expansion, to "advance compactly as we multiply". In keeping with his Enlightenment thinking, President Jefferson adopted an assimilation policy towards American Indians known as his "civilization program" which included securing peaceful U.

Jefferson advocated that Indian tribes should make federal purchases by credit holding their lands as collateral for repayment. Various tribes accepted Jefferson's policies, including the Shawnees led by Black Hoof , the Creek, and the Cherokees. However, some Shawnees broke off from Black Hoof, led by Tecumseh , and opposed Jefferson's assimilation policies. Historian Bernard Sheehan argues that Jefferson believed that assimilation was best for American Indians; second best was removal to the west.

He felt that the worst outcome of the cultural and resources conflict between American citizens and American Indians would be their attacking the whites. Historians such as Peter S. Onuf and Merrill D. Peterson argue that Jefferson's actual Indian policies did little to promote assimilation and were a pretext to seize lands.

Jefferson's successful first term occasioned his re-nomination for president by the Republican party, with George Clinton replacing Burr as his running mate. The Jefferson-Clinton ticket won overwhelmingly in the electoral college vote, by to 14, promoting their achievement of a strong economy, lower taxes, and the Louisiana Purchase.

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In March , a split developed in the Republican party, led by fellow Virginian and former Republican ally John Randolph who viciously accused President Jefferson on the floor of the House of moving too far in the Federalist direction. In so doing, Randolph permanently set himself apart politically from Jefferson.

Jefferson and Madison had backed resolutions to limit or ban British imports in retaliation for British actions against American shipping. Jefferson's popularity further suffered in his second term due to his response to wars in Europe. Positive relations with Great Britain had diminished, due partly to the antipathy between Jefferson and British diplomat Anthony Merry.

After Napoleon's decisive victory at the Battle of Austerlitz in , Napoleon became more aggressive in his negotiations over trading rights, which American efforts failed to counter. Jefferson then led the enactment of the Embargo Act of , directed at both France and Great Britain. This triggered economic chaos in the U. During the revolutionary era, the states abolished the international slave trade, but South Carolina reopened it. In his annual message of December , Jefferson denounced the "violations of human rights" attending the international slave trade, calling on the newly elected Congress to criminalize it immediately.

The bill was signed into law; however, negotiations for the project failed. Jefferson lost clout among fellow Republicans, and his use of unofficial Congressional channels was sharply criticized.

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Following the electoral deadlock, Jefferson's relationship rapidly eroded with his vice president, former New York Senator Aaron Burr. Jefferson suspected Burr of seeking the presidency for himself, while Burr was angered by Jefferson's refusal to appoint some of his supporters to federal office. Burr was dropped from the Republican ticket in The same year, Burr was soundly defeated in his bid to be elected New York governor. During the campaign, Alexander Hamilton publicly made callous remarks regarding Burr's moral character. After leaving office in April , Burr traveled west and conspired with Louisiana Territory governor James Wilkinson , beginning a large-scale recruitment for a military expedition.

Historians remain unclear as to his true goal. In the fall of , Burr launched a military flotilla carrying about 60 men down the Ohio River. Wilkinson renounced the plot, apparently from self-interested motives; he reported Burr's expedition to Jefferson, who immediately ordered Burr's arrest. Burr's conspiracy trial became a national issue. Burr's legal team at one stage subpoenaed Jefferson, but Jefferson refused to testify, making the first argument for executive privilege.

Instead, Jefferson provided relevant legal documents. Banner criticized Jefferson for continuing to trust Wilkinson, a "faithless plotter". The British conducted raids on American shipping and kidnapped seamen in —07; thousands of Americans were thus impressed into the British naval service. In , Jefferson issued a call for a boycott of British goods; on April 18, Congress passed the Non-Importation Acts, but they were never enforced. Later that year, Jefferson asked James Monroe and William Pinkney to negotiate with Great Britain to end the harassment of American shipping, though Britain showed no signs of improving relations.

The Monroe—Pinkney Treaty was finalized but lacked any provisions to end impressment, and Jefferson refused to submit it to the Senate for ratification. He presumed unilateral authority to call on the states to prepare , militia and ordered the purchase of arms, ammunition, and supplies, writing, "The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation [than strict observance of written laws]".

Jefferson called for a special session of Congress in October to enact an embargo or alternatively to consider war. In December, news arrived that Napoleon had extended the Berlin Decree , globally banning British imports. But the war fever of the summer faded; Congress had no appetite to prepare the U. Jefferson asked for and received the Embargo Act, an alternative that allowed the U.

Later historians have seen irony in Jefferson's assertion of such federal power. Bernstein writes that Jefferson "was pursuing policies resembling those he had cited in as grounds for independence and revolution". Secretary of State James Madison supported the embargo with equal vigor to Jefferson, [] while Treasury Secretary Gallatin opposed it, due to its indefinite time frame and the risk that it posed to the policy of American neutrality. Instead of retreating, Jefferson sent federal agents to secretly track down smugglers and violators. Most historians consider Jefferson's embargo to have been ineffective and harmful to American interests.

In December , Jefferson announced his intention not to seek a third term. He turned his attention increasingly to Monticello during the last year of his presidency, giving Madison and Gallatin almost total control of affairs. In its place, the Non-Intercourse Act was passed, but it proved no more effective. Following his retirement from the presidency, Jefferson continued his pursuit of educational interests; he sold his vast collection of books to the Library of Congress, and founded and built the University of Virginia.

He would spend several hours writing letters, with which he was often deluged. In the midday, he would often inspect the plantation on horseback. In the evenings, his family enjoyed leisure time in the gardens; late at night, Jefferson would retire to bed with a book.

Jefferson envisioned a university free of church influences where students could specialize in many new areas not offered at other colleges. He believed that education engendered a stable society, which should provide publicly funded schools accessible to students from all social strata, based solely on ability. He organized the state legislative campaign for its charter and, with the assistance of Edmund Bacon , purchased the location.

He was the principal designer of the buildings, planned the university's curriculum, and served as the first rector upon its opening in Jefferson was a strong disciple of Greek and Roman architectural styles, which he believed to be most representative of American democracy. Each academic unit, called a pavilion, was designed with a two-story temple front, while the library "Rotunda" was modeled on the Roman Pantheon. Jefferson referred to the university's grounds as the " Academical Village ," and he reflected his educational ideas in its layout.

The ten pavilions included classrooms and faculty residences; they formed a quadrangle and were connected by colonnades, behind which stood the students' rows of rooms.

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Gardens and vegetable plots were placed behind the pavilions and were surrounded by serpentine walls , affirming the importance of the agrarian lifestyle. When Jefferson died in , James Madison replaced him as rector. Jefferson and John Adams had been good friends in the first decades of their political careers, serving together in the Continental Congress in the s and in Europe in the s.

Jefferson, on the other hand, was angered at Adams for his appointment of "midnight judges". However, an exchange of letters resumed open hostilities between Adams and Jefferson. As early as , Benjamin Rush , signer of the Declaration of Independence, desired that Jefferson and Adams reconcile and began to prod the two through correspondence to re-establish contact. Thus began what historian David McCullough calls "one of the most extraordinary correspondences in American history".

In , at the age of 77 Jefferson began writing his autobiography, in order to "state some recollections of dates and facts concerning myself". He related that his ancestors came from Wales to America in the early 17th century and settled in the western frontier of the Virginia colony, which influenced his zeal for individual and state rights.

Jefferson described his father as uneducated, but with a "strong mind and sound judgement".

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His enrollment in the College of William and Mary and election to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in were included. Jefferson gave his insight about people, politics, and events. He used notes, letters, and documents to tell many of the stories within the autobiography. He suggested that this history was so rich that his personal affairs were better overlooked, but he incorporated a self-analysis using the Declaration and other patriotism. In the summer of , the Marquis de Lafayette accepted an invitation from President James Monroe to visit the country. Jefferson and Lafayette had not seen each other since Jefferson's grandson Randolph was present and recorded the reunion: Jefferson had someone else read a speech he had prepared for Lafayette, as his voice was weak and could not carry.

This was his last public presentation.

After an day visit, Lafayette bid Jefferson goodbye and departed Monticello. In February , he successfully applied to the General Assembly to hold a public lottery as a fund raiser. During the last hours of his life, he was accompanied by family members and friends. On July 4 at Fuks's description, fully supported by most of the bossa nova members, simply read "HOJE. Sylvia Telles and a 'Bossa Nova' group" , since Sylvia Telles was the most famous musician in the group at that time.

Bossa nova is most commonly performed on the nylon-string classical guitar , played with the fingers rather than with a pick. Even in larger, jazz-like arrangements for groups, there is almost always a guitar that plays the underlying rhythm. Gilberto basically took one of the several rhythmic layers from a samba ensemble , specifically the tamborim , and applied it to the picking hand. As in samba, the surdo plays an ostinato figure on the downbeat of beat one, the "ah" of beat one, the downbeat of beat two and the "ah" of beat two.

The clave pattern sounds very similar to the two-three or three-two son clave of Cuban styles such as mambo but is dissimilar in that the "two" side of the clave is pushed by an eighth note. Also important in the percussion section for bossa nova is the cabasa , which plays a steady sixteenth-note pattern. These parts are easily adaptable to the drum set, which makes bossa nova a rather popular Brazilian style for drummers.

Bossa nova has at its core a rhythm based on samba. Samba combines the rhythmic patterns and feel originating in former African slave communities. However, unlike samba, bossa nova doesn't have dance steps to accompany it. Two-measure patterns usually contain a syncopation into the second measure. Overall, the rhythm has a "swaying" feel rather than the "swinging" feel of jazz.

Bossa nova was also influenced by the blues , but because the most famous bossa novas lack the bar structure characteristic of classic blues, as well as the statement, repetition and rhyming resolution of lyrics typical of the genre, bossa nova's affinity with the blues often passes unnoticed. Prior to bossa nova, Brazilian singers employed brassy, almost operatic styles.

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