Video Questions: Thomas Jefferson

1. How is Jefferson described?

2. How would he make his most important contribution?

3. How did Jefferson prefer to make his arguments?

4. What kind of family was he raised in?

5. What was everything?

6. What supported the society?

7. What did he do at age 16?

8. What thinking did Dr. Small introduce to him?

9. Who would Jefferson eat dinner with each week?

10. What happened in 1769?

11. Who did he align himself with?

12. What bill would he first sponsor?

13. What was he a firm advocate of?

14. What would he say about the slave trade?

15. What was common in colonial Virginia?

16. What would Jefferson inherit?

17. What was the British response to the Boston Tea Party?

18. What would the royal governor of Virginia do?

19. What meeting would take place in Philadelphia?

20. How were Jefferson's resolutions viewed?

21. What did most believe?

22. What was widely circulated?

23. What were forming?

24. What happened in the spring of 1775?

25. What would meet in June 1775?

26. Who was the most famous American?

27. What role would Jefferson play?

28. What did Jefferson say about all men?

29. What rights are listed in the Declaration of Independence?

30. What must be done to secure those rights? 

31. Where do governments derive their powers?

32. Who ran everything in Jefferson's time?

33. How are governments described?

34. What did Jefferson do during the war?

35. What would he attempt over the next ten years?

36. How was the church in Virginia supported?

37. If you disagreed with church teachings what might happen?

38. What would Jefferson be branded as?

39. Who ruled Virginia?

40. Who were his heroes of civilization?

41. What happened in 1782?

42. What would Jefferson do in 1784?

43. How did he feel about France?

44. What would happen when he returned from France?

45. Who would he be at odds with?

46. What would his rival favor?

47. How was their dispute preserved?

48. What party would John Adams lead?

49. What contributed to Jefferson's lands being ruined?

50. What did the Constitution make no allowance for?

51. What was the result of the 1796 election?

52. What deeply angered Jefferson?

53. What happened in the 1800 election?

54. What would Jefferson's critics say?

55. How is his first term described?

56. What happened in 1803?

57. Who was Sally Hemmings?

58. Who succeeded Jefferson as president?

59. What dogged his later life?

60. Who would he renew an old friendship with?

61. What was his last great project?

62. What is necessary for a democracy to survive?

63. How did Jefferson want to be remembered?