1. Jefferson’s Goals

2. Goals Support the will of the people Not taxing money people earned
Need for limited and small government
Cut Spending
Keep National Bank

3. Support the will of the people
Did away with unpopular taxes/domestic taxes
Walked to inauguration-no fancy carriage ride
Did not support taxing money people earned from work
Stressed need to protect civil liberties
Whiskey tax
Passes laws needed to carry out plan
Let Alien and Sedition Act expire

4. Keep Government Small Kept government to only several hundred people
Government protects from foreign threats, deliver mail, Collect custom duties
Hopefully this would help repay National Debt

5. Reduce Armed Forces CUT SPENDING
Reduces Navy to 7 active ships
Reduce the number of people serving in Army
Help to reduce expenses
Help to pay off National Debt

6. National Bank
Did not like it …….BUT
Kept National Bank

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8. Jefferson only wanted to have three things on his tombstone
His Legacy-Epitaph
Jefferson only wanted to have three things on his tombstone

9. Three accomplishments
R. I . P. 1
Author of the Declaration of Independence 2
Author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom 3
Father of the University of Virginia

10. Your task will be to add to the tombstone
R. I . P.
Your job will be to add on the tombstone other qualities and things that he did not mention to put on his tombstone. 1
Author of the Declaration of Independence 2
Author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Your job will be to add on the tombstone other qualities and things that he did not mention to put on his tombstone. 3
Father of the University of Virginia