"Let us, then, with courage and confidence, pursue our own Federal and [Democratic-] Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative gove separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others, po
chosen country, with room enough for our descendants i entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of on
to honor and confidence from our fellow citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them, enlightened by a benign religion
blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens a wise and frugal Government, which s
men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth
bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities."
President Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address, 1801
Which of the following best describes the context from which the ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged?
Religious revivals encouraged the widespread development of reform movements
Political leaders sought to encourage domestic economic development.
Popular opinion supported intervention in Europe against France.
Voters pressured state governments to drop property restrictions on voting.