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Thomas
Jefferson
by Pat McCarthy
Fascinating Facts
• Thomas Jefferson was a fine violinist He
played the violin when he took breaks while
writing the Declaration of Independence.
• The name Monticello means “little
mountain” in Italian.
• Jefferson did not seat people at his dinner
table according to their ranks He considered
every person at the table equal
Scott Foresman Social Studies
Nonfi ction Summarize • Captions
• Glossary
• Map
• Headings
ISBN 0-328-14837-7
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Thomas
Jefferson
by Pat McCarthy
Fascinating Facts
• Thomas Jefferson was a fine violinist He
played the violin when he took breaks while
writing the Declaration of Independence.
• The name Monticello means “little
mountain” in Italian.
• Jefferson did not seat people at his dinner
table according to their ranks He considered
every person at the table equal
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In this book you will read about Thomas
Jefferson He wrote many important papers for
our government He was the third President of
the United States He did a lot of important jobs
for our country
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Thomas Jefferson
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Trang 3Jefferson Had Good Ideas
Thomas Jefferson had many ideas He was
good at writing his ideas down His ideas helped
form our government
Jefferson was born April 13, 1743, in Virginia
Virginia was a colony then It belonged to
England England had thirteen American colonies
at that time
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Jefferson Goes to School
Jefferson went to a one-room school He learned to read, write, and do math He learned French, Latin, and Greek Jefferson went to
college in Virginia at the age of sixteen
The College of William and Mary in Virginia
Trang 4Jefferson later studied law with a famous
lawyer named George Wythe The two men
became friends and stayed friends all their lives
Jefferson Is Elected to Office
Jefferson became a lawyer He did not like the
way England ruled the colonies
Jefferson studied law
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Jefferson married Martha Skelton He built a house called Monticello
Some people in the colonies were unhappy with the way the British were ruling them
Jefferson wrote that England should not make laws for the colonies People in the colonies
wanted to have a direct democracy.
Jefferson’s home, Monticello
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People from many colonies met in Philadelphia
in 1774 This council was called the First
Continental Congress
The next year, the Second Continental Congress
said that England could no longer rule them
They chose Jefferson to write a paper saying the
colonies were free They called this paper the
Declaration of Independence Jefferson said it told
what Americans were thinking
Preamble to the Declaration of Independence
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The Colonies Fight a War
The colonies fought a war to get free from England It was called the Revolutionary War
It took eight years to win this war
Jefferson wrote an important paper about religion It said people could worship in their own way
Signing of the Declaration of Independence
Trang 6Jefferson was elected governor of Virginia
Jefferson had a lot of responsibility He
needed to save Virginia from the British He
did not have enough money or supplies for the
soldiers
Jefferson Goes Home
Jefferson went back home after being
governor He wrote a book about Virginia The
war ended in 1781
The next year
Jefferson’s wife
died He was very
sad and stayed in
his room for three
weeks
Jefferson wrote many
important things.
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Jefferson Serves His Country
Jefferson was later elected to Congress He wrote many important papers
Jefferson went to France to help make treaties,
or agreements, with other countries He worked with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin
Jefferson stayed in France for five years
John Adams
Trang 7George Washington was elected the first
President of the United States Jefferson was
Washington’s Secretary of State He helped the
country get along with other countries
When John Adams was President, Jefferson was
Vice President Jefferson and Adams had very
different ideas
Jefferson as President
Later, Jefferson was elected
the third President of the
United States He worked
hard
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In 1803 the United States bought a very large piece of land called Louisiana from France
Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the land Lewis and Clark drew maps of the land and wrote in journals Many people moved west to settle on the new land
Lewis and Clark explored the new land
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Jefferson went back to Monticello after being
President He was happy to be home
Jefferson liked to read He said, “I cannot
live without books.” He later sold his books
to Congress to start a library in Washington,
D.C This library is now called the Library of
Congress
Library of Congress
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Jefferson liked to invent things He invented a desk he could carry with him He also invented a machine to make macaroni
Jefferson invented the turning bookstand
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He invited all the students to dinner at his house
Thomas Jefferson Dies
Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826 It was
fifty years from the day the Declaration of
Independence was signed He was eighty-three
years old
University of Virginia
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Jefferson is buried at Monticello He planned his own tombstone It says:
HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION
OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA
FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
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council a group of people who make laws
and rules for a community
direct democracy government run by the
people who live under it
governor a person elected as the head of
a state in the United States
responsibility a duty; something that
must be done
Vocabulary
direct democracy
council governor responsibility
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Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions.
Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education.
Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R) Background (Bkgd) Opener: Fred J Maroon/Photo Researchers, Inc., (Bkgd) ©Stockbyte
2 Chateau de Blerancourt/Dagli Orti/The Art Archive
3 Lee Snider/Photo Images/Corbis
4 Bettmann/Corbis
5 John Neubauer/PhotoEdit
6 ©Joseph Sohm; Visions of America/Corbis
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8 C.W Jarvis/Corbis
9 Christie’s Images/Bridgeman Art library
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13 Monticello/Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc.
14 The New York Public Library/Art Resource, NY
Write to It!
Jefferson believed things should be fair Is there something that you do not think is fair? Write a paragraph about your ideas
Write your paragraph on a separate sheet of paper.
In this book you will read about Thomas
Jefferson He wrote many important papers for
our government He was the third President of
the United States He did a lot of important jobs
for our country