There's much too much to say about the technology, so I'll skip that. Politically:
The Federalists won. The states persistently abused their rights and as a result have lost more and more of them. America is not a nation of yeoman farmers like he wanted it to be. Slavery is as dead as the Articles of Confederation. We have universal suffrage for all races, creeds, sexes, and social classes. We cheated the native Americans big time, but they are now a part of American society, not foreign nations as they were in his day. We have direct election of senators now. The Supreme Court has accumulated a gigantic body of case law interpreting the Constitution. We've had a black president and a Catholic one. The US is a global superpower, but imperialism as he understood it is a discredited ideology. Britain is our closest friend, but it is a shadow of its former self following a titanic world war.
The Lewis and Clark expedition worked out real good, and so did the Louisiana Purchase. Thanks, dude.
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