Jefferson had an awkward courtship with Rebecca Burwell, a 16-year-old girl, who declined Jefferson's marriage proposal, and his unwelcome advances towards the wife of a boyhood friend. It resulted in Jefferson putting flowers in his room to wilt all night. Instead, Rebecca Burwell married Jacquelin Ambler, which made her the mother-in-law of the United States Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall, who wrote the famous Marbury vs. Madison decision which was a criticism on President Jefferson.
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the Red Scare refers to a period of political and cultural instability in the United States during the late 1940s and the 1950s wherein the United States was so fearful of communists in their midst due to a Cold War with the United States that neighbors informed on neighbors and people were blacklisted from employment.
