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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia

Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. By Courtney Carroll and Kristie Grube. Section 1:The Natural Bridge. Jefferson focuses on the beauty and majesty of this Natural Wonder. “Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent headache”

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Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia

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  1. Thomas Jefferson’sNotes on the State of Virginia By Courtney Carroll and Kristie Grube

  2. Section 1:The Natural Bridge • Jefferson focuses on the beauty and majesty of this Natural Wonder. • “Looking down from this height about a minute gave me a violent headache” • Indescribable emotions arise from the beauty all around The Natural Bridge.

  3. Jefferson talks from the beginning about the amazing size of the Natural Bridge (40 feet wide at the bottom, 90 feet wide at the top, 270 ft tall) • He describes his violent headaches and the sensation is only relieved by a pleasing view of the Blue Ridge • The emotions he felt were seemingly impossible and seemed to reach up to heaven. The river below (James River) is sufficient even in the driest season.

  4. Section 2: Indians of North America • Jefferson finds the Natives barbaric in their treatment of women • Faithful Relationships and Friendships • High-Principled Society

  5. Women are submitted to unjust drudgery. The stronger sex imposes on the weaker. Seems to Jefferson to be very barbaric. We (white people) are not equal to the Indians because we respect our women’s rights as we value our own. • Friendships are strong and faithful. Warriors weep on the loss of their children • Principles of society forbid all compulsion. The 3 foundations of society are: 1. eloquence in council 2. Bravery and 3. address in war.

  6. Section 3: Religion • America is filled with English emigrants escaping religious persecution • Laws of the State on Religion should be followed • Government shouldn’t govern religion • Impact of denying God’s existence.

  7. Quakers escaped England looking for an asylum of civil and religions freedom (didn’t exactly find that in America) • Convention of May 1776  exercise of religion should be free. This was declared to be a true and natural right • If the government had power over the medicine and peoples’ diets, our bodies would be in disarray, like the souls when government had control. Government is fallible • If a person, before the free religion law was in place, denied God’s existence, a father (as a consequence) could lose custody of his children to a more orthodox person. Or he could be executed.

  8. Section 4: Manufactures • Laboring on Earth • Supporting the needs and surplus of society • Carpenters, Masons, Smiths • Avoid excess workshops

  9. There is an immensity of land for the industry of farming. • Manufacture is a necessity, not a choice, to support the surplus of their people. • “Those who labor in the Earth are the chosen people of God, if God ever had chosen people.”

  10. For the general operation of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe. • “The mobs of great cities, which come out of manufacturing, add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.”

  11. We got all of our pictures from www.google.com and all of our information from the textbook pages 657–665)

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