... . PUBLIC LIFE PRIVATE LIFE 1794 Freed slave Robert Hemings. 1796 Freed slave James Hemings. 1797-1801 Served as U.S. Vice President. 1801-09 Served as U.S. President. 1802 Louisiana Purchase. Lewis & Clark Expedition leave. 1806 Lewis & Clark expedition ended. 1809 Retired from presidency & public life. Remodeling of Monticello. 1815 Sold 6,700 volume library to Congress. 1817 Cornerstone of Central College (University of Virginia) laid ... secured the location, designed the buildings, planned the curriculum, and served as first lector v Died on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the...

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The Olive Branch Petition The Olive Branch Petition was drafted by John Dickenson during the Second Continental Congress on July 5 1775. The American Revolution had already started with the Battles of Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill. The members of the Continental Congress ... . On July 8, 1775, the members of the Continental Congress signed the document and sent it to the King. Among the signatures were those of John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Tomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Lewis Morris, Roger Sherman, and other founding fathers. King George refused ...

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The Olive Branch Petition The Olive Branch Petition was drafted by John Dickenson during the Second Continental Congress on July 5 1775. The American Revolution had already started with the Battles of Concord, Lexington and Bunker Hill. The members of the Continental Congress ... . On July 8, 1775, the members of the Continental Congress signed the document and sent it to the King. Among the signatures were those of John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Tomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, John Jay, Lewis Morris, Roger Sherman, and other founding fathers. King George refused ...

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... Independence. He was its primary author, although his initial draft was changed after talking with Benjamin Franklin and John Adams and altered by Congress. The Declaration of Independence made Jefferson famous across the nation. Years later that fame stirred up jealousy from ... John Adams, who complained that the declaration's ideas were "hackneyed" or worn out. Jefferson agreed and said he wrote of ... Jefferson liked this idea. Jefferson became the reluctant presidential candidate of the Democratic-Republican Party, and he seemed almost relieved when the Federalist candidate, John ...

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... the enactment of the Alien and Sedition Acts by writing The Kentucky Resolutions. In 1800, the Republicans nominated Jefferson for president and Aaron Burr for vice-president. Federalists had nominated John Adams for president and Charles Pinckney for vice-president. Jefferson won the presidency. Jefferson had an interest in North American exploration. He used his presidential power to purchase Louisiana from ... France and gave Meriwither Lewis and William Clark the opportunity and the responsibility to explore this vast territory. After their triumphant return, the hostile Aaron Burr ...

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... of the U.S. Constitution. He was born January 31, 1752, at Morrisiana estate, in Westchester County, NY, in 1752. He lived in a wealthy family of Loyalists. He had a half brother, named Lewis, who signed the Declaration of Independence. Morris was educated by private tutors and at a Huegonot school in New Rochelle. He also studied and graduated from King's College in New York ... of New York's provincial congress in 1775. He was one of the youngest and most brilliant members of this congress. He sat in the constitutional convention in 1776. Along with John Jay, and Robert R. Livingston,...

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