One exmaple of Jefferson using military force is when he sent The Navy, Marines to defeat Muslim terrorist. Jefferson had written a couple of reports on the 'Barbary pirates' when he was a diplomat and believed their demands kept escalating because the only thing they understood was power," Brian Kilmeade, co-author with Don Yaeger of "Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates," told IBD. "Although the U.S. Navy was tiny when he became president, he wasn't intimidated by the pirate fleets and decided the challenge required a military response. The First Barbary War was America's first confrontation with Islamic terrorism, and it has lessons for today."
During the mid-19th century, Transcendentalist writers had a strong influence over the formation of "<span>utopian communities," since there were many prominent ideas of forward social change. </span>
