with one purchase‚ the Louisiana Purchase. To add to the excitement‚ Meriwether Lewis asked me‚ a poor boat builder‚ to go along on the journey to the West. What was I going to do? Even though I made boats for a living‚ I had never explored past my little town in Virginia. After much contemplation‚ I thought‚ this is my time to explore the endless possibilities in what we Americans call life. Thomas Jefferson only wanted New Orleans and Florida for trading prior to receiving the Louisiana Purchase
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However‚ next the French and Indian war happens and at the end of it‚ The Proclamation of 1763 is issued. Great Britain receives the French Territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War or otherwise known as the Seven Years War. The Proclamation of 1763 draws a line of expansion at the Appalachian Mountains. Which meant no one could settle past the Appalachian Mountains. The government of Great Britain was cautious with their North American territory. They had already spent
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Congress and threaten the dissolution of the Union and a civil war. Prior to the Missouri question‚ the Union had eleven Free states and eleven slave states‚ each with two Senators. The Missouri Territory‚ carved out of land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803‚ covered an expanse of land just north of the Ohio River and just west of the Mississippi (these rivers joined in the southeastern corner of the territory). According to the terms of the Ordinance of 1787‚ which prohibited slavery in the
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France. One year later‚ he became the first United States secretary of state. He then was elected vice-president of the United States in 1796 and later becoming the president of the United States in 1801. While being president‚ he purchased the Louisiana territory from France for fifteen million dollars. Once again‚ Thomas Jefferson was elected president for his second term in 1804. He then retires to Monticello in 1809. From 1816 to 1819‚ he helped find the University of Virginia. Sadly‚ 7 years
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venture the west of the United States. They departed May 1804 on the Mississippi river from St. Louis where they made their way west through the continental divide to the coast of the pacific. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the expedition. The Louisiana Purchase was one of the most significant land deals in history because you were basically getting land for cents of the acre. The expedition party consisted of US army volunteers who were under the command of
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In what ways did reinvention shape American History from 1492 through 1865? To start off‚ what reinvention means is to change an event so much that it appears to be entirely new. So why does reinvention play a huge role in American History? Well‚ there is a reason for this. American History is a large mark of historians telling a story in the past. Second‚ historians change as well such as John Smith when he shared his experience when he and his men sailed to confront Powhatan. In some of the
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In 1803‚ President Thomas Jefferson purchased the territory of Louisiana from the French government for $15 million. The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to New Orleans‚ and it doubled the size of the United States. To Jefferson‚ westward expansion was the key to the nation’s health: He believed that a republic depended on an independent‚ virtuous citizenry for its survival‚ and that independence and virtue went hand in hand with land
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Jefferson along with the party favored state rights; however‚ one of Jefferson’s largest actions while in office was one that broadened the power of the Presidency and the federal government. In 1803 the United States bought the Louisiana Territory from France in a sale that was known as the Louisiana Purchase. Now this was not an easy action for Jefferson to make. In being a Democratic – Republican‚ Jefferson believed in loose constructionism and state rights. However‚ under this deal Jefferson
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The united stated actually made 2 purchase; one of those purchase was the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 which was bought from the French. You may be wondering what where the negative effect of buying these territory? When the United States bought Louisiana it gain full accuses to the Mississippi river which was a good thing for exporting goods actually because so it increased trade. It also doubled
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affairs. Merriweather Lewis and William Clark (p.789) -- commissioned by the United States government to survey and map the newly acquired territory of the Louisiana Purchase. John A. Macdonald (p. 794) -- the first prime minister of Canada (1815-1891); moved to incorporate all of British North American into the Dominion. Negotiated the Purchase of the Northwest Territories from the Hudson Bay company in 1869 and persuaded Manitoba‚ British Columbia and Prince Edward Island to join the Dominion. Oversaw
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