About Face: Thomas Jefferson

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About Face Thomas Jefferson the Louisiana
Purchase

• Lecture 15October 24, 2007

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Hamiltons Report on Public Credit 1790

• Debt held abroad -- 12,000,000
• Debt held domestically -- 43,000,000Total
  National Debt -- 55,000,000
• Owed by Congress -- 30,000,000
• Owed by 13 States -- 25,000,000

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Alexander Hamilton (1755/57-1804) 1795 John
Trumbull portrait
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John Adams (1735-1826) John Trumbull 1793
portrait
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John Adams (1735-1826)1826 Gilbert Stuart
portrait
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)circa 1780
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)1786 portrait
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Thomas Jefferson1801 Robert Peale portrait
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Louisiana Purchase (1803)800,000 square miles
for 15,000,000
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)1805 Rembrandt
Peale portrait
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George Washington (1732-1799) 1797 Gilbert
Stuart portrait
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George Washington (1732-1799)portrait of the
1780s
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James Madison (1751-1836) Gilbert Stuart
portrait ca. 1809?