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    America what it was and what it encapsulates most of all, exploration, explanation, geopolitical tensions, and economic revival, The Louisiana purchase. The Louisiana purchase has what put President Thomas Jefferson in the history books and made him regarded as one of the best Presidents in history. When the economy was in shambles after the war,

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    The Louisiana Purchase My topic is the Louisiana Purchase and why people wanted Louisiana, the hardships of getting the area for the USA, and what happened after the purchase. The Louisiana Purchase was a monumental change to the United States Of America, but there were struggles that you might not have known about. Many countries wanted to get a hold of Louisiana, including France,and the USA. But why did everyone want Louisiana? Well, Napoleon Bonaparte, the leader of France, wanted

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    The purchase of Louisiana was both beneficial to President Thomas Jefferson as well as detrimental in many ways. The ordeal started in October of 1802, where Joseph Harris of smithsonianmag.com states that the Spanish administrator, Juan Ventura Morales, who was administering New Orleans until the French administrator Laussat arrived, said that the terms of 1795 treaty had expired and the Americans had lost their right to store American merchandise in warehouses located in New Orleans. Another right

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    The Louisiana purchase started in April 30, 1803. The purchase was about a land deal between the United States and France. Many Americans believed that the right deposit was important. That was the talk of when the war began. France territory was at the price of $15 million per acre. On April 1803 the U.S. representatives from Paris agreed to pay the $15 million. But for about 828,000 square miles of land that stretched from Mississippi River to Rocky Mountains and then to the Gulf of Mexico to Canada

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    Louisiana Purchase           I believe that the Louisiana Purchase was one of the greatest impacts on American society because of the large amount of land and how it helped our economy. In this report you will see how lucky that the United States is to have obtained this large piece of land from France.           Their are many reasons why Napoleon had to sell this large piece of land

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    The Louisiana Purchase set a dangerous precedent as the President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson and Congress ignored the constitution when agreeing to purchase the territory. This purchase of land violated the limitations that Thomas Jefferson and Republicans had fought for while the Federalist party was in control of the Presidency and Congress. However, the political climate of France, Spain and the United States set the stage for Jefferson to violate his strict constructionist beliefs

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    Louisiana Purchase: America’s Single Largest Land Deal The Louisiana Purchase was by far the single largest land deal in the United States, occupying the western half of the Mississippi River basin. Purchased from France in 1803 at less than three cents per acre for 828,000 square miles, it was the greatest land bargain in American history (Blumberg, 100). By doubling the size of the United States, the Louisiana Territory allowed the country to strengthen itself, materially and strategically, granting

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    so rapidly. What started with the small purchase of New Orleans led into the substantial purchase of the Louisiana Territory. This was a purchase that will make Thomas Jefferson a man to be remembered. Although, he wasn’t the only man who impacted the United States during this time period. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are the two men that are greatly known for their expedition across the Louisiana Territory. These two subjects, the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition, altered

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    To buy or not to buy, that is the question. Although it was the greatest “real estate” deal, the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was perhaps one of the most controversial events in American History. President Thomas Jefferson, although he was a Founding Father and the primary writer of the Declaration of Independence, faced major opposition with his decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory from the French. Most of the opposition he faced, however, was domestic. Jefferson was the founder of the

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    Gabriel Quarcoo Mr. D Nesmith History 1301.06 October 24th, 2014 Thomas Jefferson’s Dilemma on the Louisiana Purchase In our day, we consider the boarders of the United States impenetrable and inevitable. We tend to forget that the nation started off as a little country which consisted of 13 states, occupying the Atlantic Seaboard, which is only is small portion of what it is now. The county before the 1803 depended on its resources for agriculture, mining and logging. The need for more land for

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