U.S. History 131 6/1/00 Thomas Jefferson The most influential person in American history would be Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, became the first republican president, and began the self improvement thought process by learning through going to school. Jefferson told people that knowledge was the way to becoming a better person, and that all Americans need to improve on what they think, not by changing day by day themselves, but overall becoming a …showed first 75 words of 686 total…

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