PART ONE: HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THOMAS JEFFERSON?
PART ONE: HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW THOMAS JEFFERSON?
The son, the father and husband, the politician and the slave owner.
The son, the father and husband, the politician and the slave owner.
Thomas Jefferson was a man of the Enlightenment
Thomas Jefferson led the first Democratic movement in the new republic to check the power and influence of established forces.
Maria Cosway was Thomas Jefferson's first wife.
Thomas Jefferson promised his wife on her deathbed he would never re-marry.
Thomas Jefferson was born in Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson's father, Peter, was a surveyor and a planter.
Thomas Jefferson's mother was Elizabeth Randolph.
Thomas Jefferson was the 4th president of the United States
Thomas Jefferson attended William and Mary College.
Thomas Jefferson married Martha Wayles Skelton on New Year's Day in 1772.
In 1769, Thomas Jefferson crafted a bill that shifted control of emancipation from the General Court to slave owners themselves.
Thomas Jefferson wrote A Summary View of the Rights of British America after the Declaration of Independence.
Sally Hemings was the half sister of Thomas Jefferson's wife.
From 1774 to 1826 Thomas Jefferson tended to have about 500 slaves at any one time.
Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine proposed suspending payments of debts to British merchants.
Thomas Jefferson said, 'It is the indispensable duty of the supreme magistrate to consider himself as acting for the whole community, and obliged to support its dignity, and assign to the people, with justice, their various rights, as he would be faithful to the great trust reposed in him.'