Video Description He was a genius, a visionary and one of the founders of our country. He invented our monetary system, fought for religious freedom and argued for public education. Yet his critics called him a coward and a snob. Take a fresh look at the real Thomas Jefferson and discover the complexities and contradictions of a great American. The Comprehension Questions are available to download as an RTF file. You can save the file to your desktop and open it in a word processing program.