Thomas Jefferson's Influence On American Culture
Thomas Jefferson, had many ideas about the distinctive version of America. He believed in education throughout the states. Women’s education opportunities, Native American, and Higher education. He wanted to establish an American public school system to boost the [electorate] (Brinkly, 2012). Most of the facilities for education were private schools which most people were not wealthy enough to attend. The majority of the women were not educated with small [illiteracy rates at the time of the revolution] (Brinkly, 2012). Many had beliefs that the [“revolutionary mother”] (Brinkly, 2012) could make great contributions to the education of the children giving them a great sense of meaning bringing up the next generation of leaders. The cultural aspect comes from many writers that created literal works changing the culture within the history of America. Many literary works include the [“History of the Revolution”] (Brinkly, 2012) written by Mercy Otis Warren. His three volumes of his book vastly changed the culture with his works that are still known today.
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The new technologies greatly boosted the economy. These technologies greatly increased trade. [Eli Whitney] (Brinkly, American History volume 1, 2012) Was one of the major contributors to the economy with his cotton gin, he also contributed to the war effort by building muskets due to the lack there of. Though building these muskets was slow he devised a way to produce more of them by building machines that created most of the parts of the muskets, he also created machines to build other items like sewing machines. These innovations greatly boosted the economy by pushing the goods out of the country on ships. As trade got better the economy did
The new technologies greatly boosted the economy. These technologies greatly increased trade. [Eli Whitney] (Brinkly, American History volume 1, 2012) Was one of the major contributors to the economy with his cotton gin, he also contributed to the war effort by building muskets due to the lack there of. Though building these muskets was slow he devised a way to produce more of them by building machines that created most of the parts of the muskets, he also created machines to build other items like sewing machines. These innovations greatly boosted the economy by pushing the goods out of the country on ships. As trade got better the economy did