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Thomas Jefferson: Enlightened Ideas

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Title: Thomas Jefferson Ms. Santi Jaset L. Rivera Civics 7th Grade Kissimmee Middle School Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Shadwell, Virginia and died on July 4, 1826, at his home in Monticello, Virginia. Due to its enormous culture and scholarship, Thomas Jefferson was a clear example of enlightened, freethinking and supporter of the natural rights of man and man one of the politicians, along with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, more decisive for the future of their country. As the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, put it all enlightened ideas of European origin, which are then applied in two presidential terms (Freidel & Sidey, 2006). Jefferson continued to study and became
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