>Said that America should be a nation of small farmers
>Across the sea James Watt had invented the Steam Engine, thus setting the stage for the Industrial Revolution which would make small farmers uneconomical and obsolete.
Tommy J. was a decent guy but he most definitely was not infallible or always right.
>>909707
Nobody's perfect.
TJ was a coward who couldn't fathom responsibility or destiny as a nation; he was a smallminded politician in ways that Hamilton, Washington, and Madison clearly were not. Easily in the lowest quartile of founding fathers.
>wanted to keep the country small
>proceeds with the Louisiana Purchase
If we're talking about presidents who said one thing and did the other, for the good or not, TJ has to be one of the worst
>>911670
TJ didn't necessarily want the nation to be small; he bought Louisiana so that there would be land for small farmers to own as the east coast became suffocated
>>911655
+1
>>911696
and really that's one of the main faults of his thinking, if the US was going to remain a nation of rural farmers it would've needed to continuously expand in order to keep the population density down and to stop farmers from competing unnecessarily, which is ultimately unfeasible.
>>909707
Jefferson BTFO
Federalism wins the long game!
>tfw when you realalize Thomas Jefferson was a maoist
James Watt didn't invent the steam engine, he was a businessman who improved an existing steam engine.
The steam engine was invented by Denis Papin.
>>911643
That's the point.
