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    and of Nature 's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation (Jefferson). This is the opening paragraph to the Declaration of Independence, which is one of the most easily recognized documents in the United States. In his opening, Thomas Jefferson makes the position of the colonies known; we have had enough and we shall take it from here. This statement, this document started a revolution, a civil war between

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    Relationships with the Mandans Thomas Jefferson had just expanded the United States territory immensely. This purchase was known as the Louisiana Purchase, which is arguably the best decision in US history. All the new land resulted in several unknown questions. Some of them were, “what does this land provide, what animals are out there, who can be found on this land?” To answer some of these mysterious questions Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the Louisiana Purchase

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    authors, most importantly Thomas Jefferson created the infamous 1,458 worded document. The intentions of the document and of Thomas Jefferson was to persuade people to side with the rebellion and disassociate from Great Britain publicly. Jefferson also wanted to explain under what circumstances the governed could justly overthrow the government, as well as what rights every man should have in the colonies. Through the use of numerous paragraphs in the document, Thomas Jefferson appealed to the commoners

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    Thomas Jefferson was very determined person with well written document during the British Tyranny. The document, he listed was to inspire and spread his idea to fight for independence against British rule. (Sentence model 5) Although many colonies were at the disagreement on whether to fight for independence or not, Jefferson still decided to take action to change those opinions. Thomas Jefferson wanted to unite the 13 colonies through the common problem that they all have faced, as reason towards

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    appointed attorney general of New York in 1789 and served as a United States senator from 1791 to 1797 (Onager CD-ROM). In the Election of 1800, Aaron Burr was the running mate of Republican candidate Thomas Jefferson. Although Burr was running for vice-president, he received as many votes as Jefferson did, and the House of

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    July of 1776, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania adopted the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson was the author of The Declaration of Independence, the document that stated the reasons that lead up to why the British colonies of North America wanted an searched for independence. It was then that it was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. June of 1776, the presentment of the Declaration to the continental Congress committee took place after many series of debates

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    the rich exploited the poor citizens for their own personal benefit. After the American Revolution, the American people began to see an unequal political system that only favored elite white men.  The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson to declare America’s independence from Great Britain. The declaration was written to empower Americans to fight the British. The quote “all men are created equal” was a battle cry for the revolution. After the revolution, the same quote was used

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    In Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence he uses parallelism, allusion, and anaphora to tell Great Britain that they need to stay out of the U.S. The Declaration of Independence was made after the American revolution was won by the United States during the age of reason where they believe more in the church, this is shown in the Declaration of Independence with references to the bible. The event that made Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence was when we went to war with

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    Representative, Thomas Jefferson in his statement, The Declaration of Independence, claims it is time for America to become an independent nation. He supports his claim buy describing what he wants the king to do, then listing what the King did to nullify the rights of the colonies. Then he declares the United States Free of British rule, and finally asking the people to join him and asking the king to subjugate the colonies. Jefferson’s purpose is to criticize the king, inform any other people who

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    Do you think that Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton had every agreed with eachother on a topic? The reason we have political parties is because Jefferson and Hamilton could never agree. Alexander Hamilton was part of the Federalist Party and Thomas Jefferson was part of the Democratic-Republican Party. Alexander Hamilton supported manufactures, merchants, and planters to which were part of the upper class. He believed that the common people were very uneducated and ignorant to make valuable

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