Thomas Jefferson's Presidency
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
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. 5 The territory of Louisiana was originally colonized by France. The opposition to the embargo was no doubt more strenuous from the circumstance that that portion of our citizens who were more immediately affected by its operation, particularly the merchants, considered themselves the best judges relative to the expediency of any restriction of the kind, and were inclined to look upon the act of the executive as arbitrary and ill-advised. Soon after the commencement of his second term, he had requested his fellow citizens to think of a successor for him. How great it is today to be reflecting on a man who I entrust will have a great influence on our country's future. Those engaged in foreign commerce and in the carrying trade were found to prefer the hazard of seizure and confiscation to a general embargo; and where the interests of any portion of the community are supposed to be affected by a public measure, no consideration of national advantage or dignity will ever reconcile the aggrieved party to the smallest pecuniary sacrifice. Jefferson seek a third term, he decided to pass the torch on. Burr guilty on his charges of treason. In 1762, all French territory west of the Mississippi including the island of New Orleans was ceded to Spain, and, by the general treaty of peace which followed the French and Indian War in 1763, the whole territory of France eastward of the Mississippi except the Island of Orleans was ceded to Great Britain. Burr thought it to be a wise idea to establish a new republic in the Louisiana Territory.
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