During a time of revolution and independence, the leading men, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, and James Madison, all helped to influence a young country which stressed freedom and liberty for all. ... Thomas Jefferson's first memory of an African American was him being carried on top of a pillow by his family's slave. ... Jefferson's fellow political leaders were brought up much the same. Until later in their life, they did not know any better than to go along with society and treat African Americans and Natives as inferior races. ... Conformity of the c...

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The Southern representation at the turn of the century were the Anti-Federalists, led by Thomas Jefferson. ... Jefferson considered the 10th amendment to be "the foundation of the Constitution.... Jefferson was widely supported in the South, which makes evident that many Southerners disagreed with the idea of a strong central government. Jefferson addresses the issue of state rights in his writings "As the federal government grabs more and more power, the question arises: what's the point of having states? ... The Nullification Crisis arose in the early 1830s when leaders of South Ca...

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