Thomas Jefferson Accomplishments

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Thomas Jefferson was one of our amazing founding fathers here in the United States . He accomplished many amazing concepts that now forms our country. He was elected as the third president of the U.S and served two term. He served as the country´s first secretary of state and was responsible for many amazing acts. In his lifetime he accomplished many concepts that now forms us as a country. He was an architect,an inventor, a farmer, and a leader to us all.

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Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13th, 1743 and was born in Monticello. He attended college William & Marry. He served for many occasions and drafted a few concepts. He drafted the Declaration Independence in the year 1776. Also, during the Revolutionary War,

Thomas Jefferson was able to accomplish the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Thomas Jefferson wanted to purchase the settlement of New Orleans from the French. Jefferson wanted this territory for new land to plant crops and raise livestock. At the time, the U.S Minster of France was sent by Jefferson to try and buy the land from the Napoleon. The Napoleon refused to sell at first, however in the same year ,1803 Jefferson and James Monroe fortunately arranged a deal with France. This deal was to purchase the Louisiana Territory which would come with 827,000 square miles of land for about $15 million. Part of this land or all would later become 15 states. The size of the whole Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the nation. This would only be the beginning for one of Jefferson´s one of many accomplishments Jefferson made in his 83 years of being on

He then rode a custom made 55-foot keelboat. This keelboat was also known as “the boat” as well as “the barge”. They rode down the Ohio River and joined Clark in Clarksville, Indiana. Then from that point on, Clark took the boat up the Mississippi River. All while Lewis carried along on horseback to collect other supplies that would be needed. For example, they brought along supplies such as, compasses, telescope, camping supplies, mosquito netting, fishing equipment, soap, clothing ,weapons, medicines, medical supplies,geography, astronomy maps and many more useful supplies. The expedition party had about 45 souls, that is including Lewis, Clark, 27 unmarried soldiers, a French-Indian interpreter, a covenant boat crew and an enslaved person that was owned by Clark, he ended up naming them