How Did Thomas Jefferson Farm Evolve

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Jefferson feared that the agrarian republic that he was trying to create was slowly falling apart. He didn’t need to fear though because his ideas would evolve and are still evolving from his original idea today. We still have farming and the idea that we should base our country off of local products. An example of the idea being the same and that is just evolving is in the pictures from document A the pictures show the evolution of the farm. The picture shows that they started with clearing the land and planting the crops and it evolved to having animals and crops, and later got to the point with machinery to help with farming the crops. Farming is a huge part of America even today. In document B he would be scared of less slavery. With

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