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Why did Thomas Jefferson support the
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Answer:He believed the French Revolution was directly inspired by the American Revolution, which ended only a couple years before. It is likely that Jefferson foresaw a similar end result: he hoped France would become a liberal democracy along the lines of the United States.

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