During 1800-1850, Thomas Jefferson had a very strong vision for America, but this time period wasn't very consistant with his vision. Jefferson was very strong for the rural areas and farmers, and wanted the single states governments to be stronger than the federal government. Outside of his vision, the small-town farmer steadily declined in importance and the federal government had a growing importance over the smaller state governments.
Outside of this, his being the first president to strongly advocate universal education, hince his founding of the University of Virgina, was the only point of his vision that really worked out the way I think he saw it. Mostly because it's the only part of his vision to not only work out, but to work out so that it is still a very large part of our country.
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I like this blog it explains what Thomas Jefferson did, what was important to him, and what eventually became less important to him than anything else which in the end as you said was the small town farmer
ReplyDeleteYou made a good point when you brought up Jefferson's vision because it lets me know how the wanted things during this era. This explains that he wanted to make things how he wanted it to be and that his way would help benefit everybody.
ReplyDeleteI agree. From the other blogs I read many people are looking too hard at the small things that Jefferson did during the era that matched the way he imagined things but you see the whole picture and how most of Jeffersons ideas were not accomplished.
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