Thomas Jefferson's Biography
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| Thomas Jefferson |
Later in 1760, He studied at the
College of William and Mary. There he took math, science, philosophy, and
literature. He later decided to go and study law. During law, he met Martha
Wayles Skelton. They both loved classical music. (Benton) They got married and
had six children. Sadly, only two of them survived beyond adulthood, the rest
died. After they were married, Jefferson built his home called Monticello on
the hill where he used to play during his child hood. His mother died in 1776 (Benton) .
Accomplishments of
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson made a lot of
accomplishments during his life time. Before Jefferson became president, he had
a lot of other big jobs. He was picked to join the Virginia House of Burgesses
in 1769. (Sheppard)
There, he led the patriotic faction. Later in 1776 to 1779 he became the legislator
for Virginia. Then, even later after that, Jefferson was the governor of
Virginia. (Sheppard)
While he was Governor, Jefferson tried to keep the British from invading, but
unfortunately he failed. The good news was that Jefferson did great guiding his
people through the last parts of the American Revolution. (Sheppard)
Later, he
was asked to join the Continental Congress. There, Jefferson created the
Declaration of Independence. (Monticello.org) This document tells us and the
government that men and women regardless of their birth, or status both have
equal rights. (Monticello.org) It also states that the government does
not control us entirely, but that it helps us make our decisions. In 1790,
Jefferson agreed to become the post of secretary of state. Soon after that, he
became the vice president. (Monticello.org) He ran for president, but he lost by
three votes against John Adams. Back then, when they voted, the person who won
became the president, and the person who lost became the vice president. Then
Four years later, he became the third U.S president. (Monticello.org)
During his
term as president, Jefferson achieved many things. One of those achievements
was the Louisiana Purchase act in 1803. (Truman)
Then later, Jefferson decided to send out 2 men named Lewis and Clark to go and
explore the area of uncharted land. (Truman)
This lasted for two years. Later, in 1804, Jefferson decided to run for president
again. He defeated Charles Pinckney with 162 votes to 14 votes. During his
second term he made the Embargo act of 1807. (Truman)
Unfortunately it was not a favorite and it was repealed in 1809. Even though
Jefferson tried to stop a war from happening, his efforts were futile. We still
ended up going to war against Britain in 1812. (Truman)
Impacts that Thomas
Jefferson made on American Democracy
Thomas
Jefferson made many kinds of impacts on American democracy. Jefferson was very
intelligent. During his life, he was very busy with multiple jobs. He was a
politician, statesman, diplomat, intellectual, writer, and scientist. (Teitelman) From these many
jobs, Jefferson got new information that made him smarter and wiser. During his
presidency, Jefferson made an effort to try and make the states a better place.
Jefferson helped lower taxes and helped build up the army and navy. He also
supported International Commerce which helped benefit farmers. (Teitelman)
Another
thing that he did was that he passed a bill saying that America could no longer
send ships to Britain to trade goods. (Robbins)
This was supposed to keep peace between them, so that they would not start a
war. Unfortunately this made many people unhappy. (Robbins)
It also made trading slower and less efficient. (Robbins)
Jefferson retired after two terms. He decided to elect James Madison to run for
president. The vice president was going to be George Clinton. (Robbins)
One last
thing that Thomas Jefferson did was that he believed in the rights of man and
women. (Galbraith)
He also believed in getting a good education wherever you lived. That is why he
decided to build the University of Virginia. Another thing that Jefferson
believed was that there should be two different groups of learners. (Galbraith) Those who worked in
labor would learn more about how to farm and get better crops. Those who worked
in science and health would learn more about science and new ways to treat
diseases. (Galbraith)
He then began to plan a system of schools all over Virginia and Charlotte so
that all kids could have a fair education. (Galbraith)
These are only some of the major impacts that Thomas Jefferson made in life, but
they are still very important in learning how our history began and came to be.
(Galbraith)
James Madison
Biography
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| James Madison |
During his adult career, James did
many things. Later, James’s health got better, and he was soon elected to
Virginia’s 1776 Revolutionary Convention. (Brant)
While James was there, he drafted a document guaranteeing the freedom of
religion for the people. (Brant)
After two years of working with them, James was asked to join the Continental
Congress in March 1780. Then in 1784, James went back into the Virginia
legislature. (Brant)
Then he managed to persuade the states’
rights advocate who was John Tyler to sponsor the calling of Annapolis
Convention of 1786. (Brant)
This thanks to James led to the making of the Constitutional Convention of
1787. Later after he had dropped out of the Virginia Convention, he was elected
to the new House of Representatives. (Brant)
That is where James created the first ten amendments to the bill of rights.
For a few years, James had been
courting Dolly Payne Todd. (Truemen) Then
in 1794, Him and Dolly who was now 43 years old, decided to finally get married.
Dolly had one son before she met James. (Truemen)
James Madison also helped create and
signed the Declaration of Independence. (Brant)
Achievements of James
Madison
During James’s later years, he
made several Achievements. One of them was the Embargo act. As mentioned
earlier, Thomas Jefferson had already tried to pass the embargo act of 1807. Unfortunately
it failed. And that is where James Madison comes in. When that act had failed,
Madison replaced it with the Non- Intercourse Act. (Schulman)
After this came the Macon Bill. It soon replaced the Embargo act when it had
been repealed. Unfortunately the British did not like this bill, and a new
tension started to build up. Then on June 1, 1812, Madison asked to declare a
war on Britain. (Schulman)
The bad part, was that the U.S was not at all ready or prepared for a war. The
war was not a good one for the Americans for a while, until Andrew Jackson took
command, and that was when they all fought hard against the British and won. (Schulman)
Another achievement of his was that
James had wrote most of the US Constitution during his time at the
Constitutional Convention of 1787. (Kyrnin)
When James created the U.S constitution, he also managed to create a strong
federal government. Later, after James had dropped out of the Convention, he
and two other people decided to create the federalist papers. These papers helped
change public opinion about ratifying the New Constitution. (Kyrnin) After that, in 1808,
James decided to run for President. (Kyrnin)
It turned out that Madison had won 122
votes out of 175 from the electoral votes. He had managed to defeat Charles,
and had now became the president after Thomas Jefferson. (Kyrnin)
James also created the bill of
rights. (Truemen)
This was a document that stated to amendments for the Constitution that stated
the ten rights that the U.S people have. Soon after it was drafted and created,
the Bill was ratified in 1791. (Truemen) In 1803, while Madison was still the
Secretary of state, he helped Thomas Jefferson buy the Louisiana Territory from
the French. This helped increase the size of America. During his presidency,
James decided to try and re run for re-election against Federalist DeWitt
Clinton. (Truemen)
James won the re-election and ran for another term as President.
The last thing that James did was
that he stopped the war with Britain by signing a treaty called the Treaty of
Ghent on December 1814 in Europe. (Truemen)
James Madison’s
Impact on American Democracy
James
Madison made many impacts on the states that are still in effect today. One of
them was that he helped make it a right for people of any race to believe and
worship in their own religion. (Quigley)
He did this by adopting the Statute for Religious Freedom that was written by
Thomas Jefferson. (Quigley) This
law made it possible for people of all races to have a right to believe in
different things, while still respecting other people’s religious views from
their own. (Quigley)
Another
thing that James did, was that he went to war with the British again. (Pavao) After hearing about
the war with Napoleon, James decides to put a new Congress into effect that would go to war. He
then gathers an army of soldiers and joins the war. (Pavao) Unfortunately, they
are ill prepared, and the war becomes a tight struggle against the British and
the Americans. Eventually the Americans won, but just barely. The war
officially ended in 1815. (Pavao)
During his later life, James
worried about slavery. He was conflicted on what to do about it. Later, James decided to join The American
Colonization Society. (Ketcham)
This society helped to free slaves and to transport them back to Africa. James
wanted the slaves to be with their own people, instead of being mixed with his
own people who were white. (Ketcham)
Soon after he had joined, James became the president of the society. When James
Madison had died, he left a sum of 2,000 dollars and a piece of land that he
gave to his Society in his will that he wrote before his death. (Ketcham)
Biography of James
Monroe
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| James Monroe |
Later, in
1782, James was elected to join the Virginia Assembly. After a few years of
that, he then decided to join and serve on the Council of State. (Antholis) In 1783, James was
elected to join the Continental Congress. There, he worked to expand the power
of Congress. He also helped to organize the government for the western
countries. (Antholis)
While James was working for them, he met a woman named Elizabeth Kortright. She
was sixteen while he was twenty six. Even then, they decided to get married on
February 16, 1786. They then agreed on moving to Fredericksburg Virginia. (Antholis) When they had
settled down there, he went to study law again. A few years later, James
decided to try and challenge James Madison for a spot to become a person that
joined the U.S House of Representatives. (Antholis)
Unfortunately, James lost by 300 votes.
Even after that happened, he still got to be appointed to the U.S Senate in
1790. (Antholis)
Achievements of James
Monroe
During his
career, as president, James made several big achievements. One of them was that
when James helped some slaves become free from slavery, and he helped transport
them back to Africa with their families. (Truemen/James Monroe) He also helped
to get more land for the U.S by annexing West Florida in 1810. Another thing
that James had done was that he had helped make allies with Great Britain and France
by signing a treaty that would help to make them closer friends. He also
brought on the Era of Good Feelings after the war of 1812 that brought new
confidence to his people. (Truemen/James Monroe)
Then in
1823, James went to speak with Congress about a document called the Monroe
Doctrine. (Truemen/James Monroe) This document helped to form a relationship
with Central and South America between the U.S. He also later helped to build
up the state’s infrastructure as well as expanding the states territory.
(Truemen/James Monroe) He also fought in the Continental army and was a general
for Washington’s army. He also fought in the war with Napoleon and just barely
won the fight. James was also President during the First Seminole War during
1817 and 1818. (Truemen/ James Monroe)
Impacts the James
Monroe made on American Democracy
James Madison made many impacts on
our government. One of the things that he did was that he was the one to start
the Era of Good Feelings. (Truemen/James Monroe) During this new time, people
in the U.S were starting to become more confident because they had won the war
of 1812. (Truemen/James Monroe) He also helped to buy France from Spain, and
while doing so, they gained more land for the U.S. This was called the
Louisiana Purchase. This was happening around the 1800’s. James soon became the
minister of Great Britain because of what happened with the Louisiana Purchase.
(Truemen/James Monroe)
While he was minister, James
created another treaty that was put into effect to make the relationship
between Britain and the U.S stronger and friendlier. Then in around 1818, James
decided to create another document, this one was called the Missouri
Compromise. (Truemen/James Monroe) This document made it illegal to have
slavery in the Louisiana Territory and in the Missouri areas. The Document was
signed by James in 1820. Later, in 1820, James Monroe decided to make another
document this time naming it after himself, and calling it the Monroe doctrine.
(Truemen/James Monroe) This was put into effect, to put an end to Europe having
colonies in the Western Hemisphere. These are just some of the many impacts
that James Monroe made on American Democracy. (Truemen/James Monroe)
Hyperlinks
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