Jefferson: A Man of Contradictions
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Jefferson: A Man of Contradictions
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Key Themes of 19th Century
• Western Expansion• Who are “The People” of the United States?• Industrialization & Urbanization• Sectionalism & Regionalism
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U.S. in 1800 vs. U.S. in 1900
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Party Politics in 1800
• Federalists vs. Democrat-Republicans
• Roots in Federalists & Anti-Federalists of 1780s
• Jefferson = First Democrat-Republican president
• Affiliation reflected in fashion
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What is a Republic?• Society governed by free & equal citizens• Ownership of land or means of production
symbolized potential to be an independent member of the republic
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Jefferson & Land
• Idealized the yeoman farmer
• Assumed Indians were “on the verge of disappearing”
• Rival conceptions of property ownership and property usage with Indians
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Republican Motherhood
• Excluded from political membership & citizenship
• New definition of womanhood for white, literate, middle-class and elite women
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Contradiction # 1: Life of Wealth vs. Philosophy of Humility
• Southern slaveholder & aristocrat from Virginia
• Battled Northern Federalists to shape the nation
• Fiercely supportive of France
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Monticello
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Sally Hemings
• “Monticellan Sally”
• Half sister of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
• Never freed in Jefferson’s lifetime