Analysis Of Undaunted Courage By Thomas Jefferson

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Stephen E. Ambrose was intrigued by Thomas Jefferson, the third president

of the United States. Jefferson was an American Founding Father with a superlative

vision for the future. Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Undaunted Courage, wrote to

apprise us about the attainments and benefactions Thomas Jefferson fabricated for

the United States. Ambrose wrote about how Thomas Jefferson invented implements

to assist mankind, how he purchased the Louisiana Territory, amd how he

commenced the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Thomas Jefferson was able to aid the

United States during the past, present, and future because he had so many

achievements during and after his lifetime.

Thomas Jefferson was an auxiliary for all people in America and other
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The people today still have

enough land to develop on for more generations to come. Since he purchased this

wide expansion of land, Americans made the American dream a reality.

After purchasing the Louisiana Territory, Thomas Jefferson knew

there was more land to be discovered, so he commenced the Lewis and Clark

Expedition in 1804. During the expedition, Lewis and Clark encountered multiple

different cultures, languages, and people. Lewis and Clark saw potential in the

Indians they ran into. They faced noble savages, but they thought the Indians could

be transformed into civilized citizens. In Undaunted Courage it explains, "When

they looked at a Negro, they saw something less than a human, something more than

an animal" (55). Jefferson, Lewis, and Clark never saw African Americans

becoming citizens of America, but they thought Indians shared the same body and

mind as white men.

Steven E. Ambrose was really intrigued by Thomas Jefferson, so he

informed us about him with the book Undaunted Courage. Ambrose gave us many

factual achievments and benfactions that Jefferson pursued during and after his

lifetime. Jefferson arranged the Lewis and Clark Expedition to possess land