What is the main achievement of former American President Jefferson?

1. During Thomas Jefferson's term of office, he sent people to France to negotiate with a view to buying New Orleans and West Florida. At that time, Napoleon was in urgent need of war funds, so he agreed to sell a large area of land from the Mississippi River to the Loki Mountains. This real estate transaction, after bargaining, was finally sold at the price of 3 cents per mu, which is known as the "Louisiana Purchase Event". The deal doubled the territory of the United States.

2. At the same time, Jefferson also sent Lewis and Clark expedition to investigate the northwest of the United States. He abolished domestic taxes, attached importance to the development of agriculture and safeguarded the national economy.

Third, 1807 signed an embargo bill to suspend trade relations with the countries belligerent in the Napoleonic Wars, so that the neutrality of the United States was respected.

Iv. 1808 announced the prohibition of the slave trade.

5. From 18 12 to 1825, I personally planned and built the University of Virginia and served as the first president of the school.

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Thomas Jefferson's political career

1769, Jefferson was elected as a member of the Virginia parliament. 1773, he and Patrick Henry and others set up the Virginia Communications Commission to fight against Britain.

1789 In September, Jefferson became the first Secretary of State of the United States, and he founded the the State Council.

1793 resigned as secretary of state at the end of the year, and established and led the Democratic Party to compete with the Federalist Party led by Hamilton, which had a great influence on the formation and development of the two-party system in the United States in the future.

In the 1796 presidential election, Jefferson was elected as the vice president after john adams.

1800 in the presidential election, Jefferson defeated President Adams and was elected the third president of the United States. People call Jefferson's victory a 1800 revolution, because it marks the decline of federalism and the harmonious rise of * * *.

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