History of the United States I / Unit 8 USH1 1063 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Jefferson's Counter-Vision
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The idea
Jefferson returned from France in seventeen ninety and objected to the favouritism given to commercial classes in the principal American cities.
In practice
His creed that those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people.
Where people slip
He held that self-sufficient, property-owning yeoman farmers held the key to the republic's longevity.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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