8. The port served areas had better and cheaper transportation and more rapid communication.
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11. Confederation of States: from Revolution until 1789. Most power was reserved to the states’ governments.
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13. Education was important for the White men and that the colonial and governments each had ultimate authority in this area. Under each of these governments during Jefferson’s time, this educational authority was most often delegated to the parents and local communities.
18. The people who lived in the cities and made a handsome living from trade became known as the bourgeoisie, from the original bourg, which was the fortress around which the cities developed.
19. China paved the way for the invention of firearms and rendered the feudal warrior.
20. Major contributors to the development of liberalism were Milton and Locke in England; Voltaire, Montesquieu, Condorcer and Rousseau in France; and Franklin, Jefferson and Madison in the United States.Fundamental Dimensions of Classical Liberalism: A Schematic Representation t
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22. Six ideas that were central or fundamental to classical liberalism are: faith in reason, natural law, republican virtue, progress, nationalism and freedom. Not only these ideas themselves but the relations among them are central to an understanding of the classical liberal worldview.
23. Classical liberals embraced the right of individuals to control their economic destinies through capitalism.
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25. Humankind was capable of monumental intellectual feats, and the development and exercise of reason was the key to the future.
39. Because humans had been created for society, it naturally followed that God would also provide for “virtue and wisdom” to manage society.
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41. There were four interrelated parts or tiers in Jefferson’s proposed educational structure: elementary school, grammar schools, university and lifelong learning.
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43. These districts would serve a dual purpose: first, they would become the local unit of government. Second, each of the districts would establish elementary school where “all free children, male and female,” would be entitled to attend without cost for three years, or longer at their private expense.
45. Common arithmetic would enable them to do the calculations to purchase goods, sell their surplus production, figure their taxes and in general understand the relatively simple agrarian economy.
49. It was clear that Jefferson intended that local leaders would come from among those educated at the grammar-school. Its graduates would provide leadership in business, transportation, surveying, the militia and local government.
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54. Whites wanted from African Americans was their labor, while what Whites wanted from Native Americans was their land.
57. The education would enable them, when they become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course of sons, should their fathers be lost, or incapable, or inattentive.
