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 …show more content… 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 Show More
