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Hace 2 días · The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2] The officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. [3]
Hace 2 días · After John Wayles died in 1773, Betty and her children became the property of his daughter Martha and her husband, Thomas Jefferson, who would later become the third president of the United States. Betty Hemings spent the remainder of her life at Jefferson’s plantation, Monticello. Over time, she gained a measure of freedom.
Hace 5 días · John Wayles was born in Lancaster, England in 1715 and emigrated to Virginia in the 1730s. He built a plantation home called "The Forest" in Charles City County. In 1746 he married Martha Eppes and in 1748 they had Martha (named after her mother).
Hace 3 días · Alien and Sedition Acts, (1798), four internal security laws passed by the U.S. Congress, restricting aliens and curtailing the excesses of an unrestrained press, in anticipation of an expected war with France. XYZ Affair British engraving satirizing Franco-American relations after the XYZ Affair.
Hace 1 día · United States - Jeffersonian Republicans, Democracy, Federalism: Jefferson began his presidency with a plea for reconciliation: “We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.” He had no plans for a permanent two-party system of government.
Hace 1 día · As president, Jefferson presided over a reduction in the national debt and government spending, and completed the Louisiana Purchase with France. Madison succeeded Jefferson as president in 1809 and led the country during the largely inconclusive War of 1812 with Britain.
Hace 5 días · A new book raises serious doubts about the allegation that Thomas Jefferson had a sexual relationship with the enslaved Sally Hemings that produced one or more children. Entitled “The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy: Report of the Scholars Commission,” it presents the conclusions of a yearlong inquiry by more than a dozen senior ...
