So I'm back with more on my Junior Research Project! This is one of my other minor focuses and it is a place. I'm assuming by the title you figured out that my place is none other than the U.S. Department of Treasury. The Treasury relates to my project of the 2 dollar bill because it had to be made through a mint and a mint is a bureau controlled by the Treasury.
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The Treasury has a number of different bureaus within its walls. There are bureaus ranging from alcohol and tobacco to the U.S. mint. The U.S. Department of Treasury is responsible for the financial security of the United States as well as its economic prosperity.
The Treasury has one main solid goal: Maintain a strong economy and create economic and job opportunities by promoting the conditions that enable economic growth and stability at home and abroad, strengthen national security by combating threats and protecting the integrity of the financial system, and manage the U.S. Government’s finances and resources effectively.
Some of the services the Treasury offers are below and they are also links so if you wanted to find out more about them they would take you back to the U.S. Department of Treasury website.
Sign up for direct deposit of federal benefit payments
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The U.S. Department of Treasury has a long and event filled past. After all we all have to start some where. If you were to go onto www.Treasury.gov and click on the about tab, and then to the history tab, then to the tab that says chronology of events, you will find a detailed list of the events sectioned by years. The first event mentioned takes place in Massachusetts on May 27, 1652. This event was actually about the passing of the Massachusetts Bay Mint Act which was established in Boston.That is just one of the many events that the Treasury has.
So that's about it for this minor focus. Stay tuned for one more, an event...
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For my U.S. History class we have to do a Junior Research Project . I chose to do mine on the two dollar bill. One of the checkpoints that we have is a Minor Focus. There are three types of Minor Focuses a Person, Place or an Event. I chose to start with the person. Our country's third President, Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson was born at Shadwell in what is now Albemarle County, Va., on Apr. 13, 1743. His mother came from one of the first families of Virginia and his father was a well to do land owner. Thomas Jefferson attended the College of William and Mary where he studied law. He began building Monticello on land inherited from his father. The mansion, which he designed in every detail, took years to complete. Thomas Jefferson married his wife Martha Skelton in 1772. They had six children together and only two of them lived to adulthood.
Thomas Jefferson won the election to become The President of the United States in 1801 and served to 1809.
Some of his major accomplishments: Elected to the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, Jefferson was appointed on June 11, 1776, to head a committee of five in preparing the Declaration of Independence. He was its primary author. Returning to Virginia late in 1776, Jefferson served until 1779 in the House of Delegates. In 1776 he succeeded in obtaining the abolition of entail; his proposal to abolish primogeniture became law in 1785. In June 1779, Jefferson was elected governor of Virginia. April 1784 he submitted Notes on the Establishment of a Money Unit and of a Coinage for the United States in which he advised the use of a decimal system. This report led to the adoption (1792) of the dollar, rather than the pound, as the basic monetary unit in the United States. He was sent to Paris initially as a commissioner to help negotiate commercial treaties; then in 1785 he succeeded Benjamin Franklin as minister to France. Congress confirmed his appointment as secretary of state in the first administration of George Washington. Jefferson accepted the position with some reluctance and largely because of Washington's insistence. He was also the President Featured on the two dollar bill.
In the final 17 years of his life, Jefferson's major accomplishment was the founding (1819) of the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. He conceived it, planned it, designed it, and supervised both its construction and the hiring of faculty. The university was the last of three contributions by which Jefferson wished to be remembered; they constituted a trilogy of interrelated causes: freedom from Britain, freedom of conscience, and freedom maintained through education. On July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson died at Monticello.
