thomas Jeffersons house

Today I went to Thomas Jeffersons house, more commonly known the Montechello. Thomas Jefferson inherited the land around the estate, from his father, Peter Jefferson, a surveyor. He started to build the house, a couple of years after his father passed away. But he was called to be the embassador to France, and was forced to postpone the making of the house. While he was in France, he admired the dome structure that most Frence buildings that could have them, had. He came back to america inspired, and when he finally returned to his estate, he ordered half the unfinished house to be torn down, and had the workers constuct a dome structure on the house.

Thomas Jefferon was a brilliant man who had a urge to invent things that would make everyday life, easier, and more leasurly. He had on of the first clock that showed the seconds, and that was connected to a Chinese gong that went off every hour, and could be heard up to 2 miles away. He also experimented with plant, recorded which ones thrived, and under which conditions, and sometimes sent his findings to the public so that people could grow better crops, or make better gardens.

Thomas Jefferson was one of the founding fathers of this country, and even drafted, and wrote, the declaration of indipendence. He also had the dream that all people could co-exist, and that all of the current slaves could one day, be free, even though he owned almost 300 slaves on montechello. But as the years went by, he realized that the freedom of all slaves would have to be accomplished by a later generation, and that we did. The Decleration of Indipendence has inspired many other countries, as well as our own, to stand up, and say whats not right, and act. A few examples would be, the Haitian Revolution, our Civil war to free all slaves. The fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Civil Rights Movement. Obviously, the entire world has learned from our for fathers examples, for rightness, and equality, and that we all live in a better place, thanks to the Decleration of Indipendence.