What did the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis & Clark Expedition accomplish? How did Aaron Burr and the Supreme Court interfere with Jefferson’s otherwise successful first term? The inauguration of Thomas Jefferson as the nation’s third president marked a turning point in America. While the Federalists were fading as a political force‚ he was able to complete the Louisiana Purchase and more than double the size of the United States‚ expanding west and broadening the horizons for the future of
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When the Ends Justify the Means: Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase Author(s): Barry J. Balleck Source: Presidential Studies Quarterly‚ Vol. 22‚ No. 4‚ America’s Bill of Rights‚ Market Economies And Republican Governments (Fall‚ 1992)‚ pp. 679-696 Published by: Wiley on behalf of the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/27551031 . Accessed: 04/12/2013 19:51 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms &
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Stokes The Louisiana Purchase The United States has a long history of crucial decision after crucial decision‚ each one with significant impact on the country and the world. While these decisions do hold great importance‚ the Louisiana Purchase was especially significant in American history. Jefferson dealt with different options‚ faced consequences‚ as well as created a huge impact across time when he signed the “Treaty of Cession.” Jefferson made the single most famous purchase in United States
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development was when Jefferson swallowed his constitutional reservations and bought the vast Louisiana territory. The Louisiana Purchase changed and affected the formative United States in many ways. By adding the Louisiana Territory‚ Jefferson helped expand the wave of slavery. It also resulted in a wide debate on the nature of the Constitution and the pros and cons. But on the other hand the Louisiana purchase had positive effects such as discovering new beneficial resources and giving the United States
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Louisiana Purchase: The purchase of Louisiana from the French was massive because it had a different effect on many people which included women‚ Native Americans‚ and enslaved African Americans. The women never really had a reason to think on such an opinion that was man based. Since‚ their only thoughts should be on the home‚ children‚ and cooking food‚ not something as land in which business comes into play in life. The quote “It’s all about land” but what would women do with it since work did
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considering the process of the settlement of the West over the whole period‚ how far can the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 be seen as the key turning point? The war of 1812 was followed by a period of exploration of the West which had been greatly expanded by the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. The process of expansion was huge and resulted in the original 13 states being 45 states by 1906. As well as the Louisiana Purchase‚ the Mexican-American War and the Californian Gold Rush of 1848‚ the Homestead Act of
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I believe that it helped become a state in different ways‚ but‚ I also believe that the Louisiana Purchase impacted Kansas. If we hadn’t bought the Louisiana territory‚ we wouldn’t have as much land to have in Kansas today. Which gave us 820‚000 square miles more than we had before. Then that gave them more open possibilities for westward expansion. That is how I believe the Louisiana Purchase impacted Kansas. Which was part of becoming a state. My thoughts are that Lewis and Clark also had a big
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Jefferson made the purchase of Louisiana because he dreamed about the United States growing throughout North America. Jefferson also knew that Britain could use power against France to obtain power of the Louisiana Territory‚ which would eventually end in the United States being sandwiched in between the two. If French gained the territory they would be in the middle of the battles between France and Britain. Also‚ New Orleans is a main spot for shipping. New Orleans is in the Louisiana territory‚ so
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The total value of the purchase was $15 million‚ at an astounding rate of under three cents per acre. The people who lived in Louisiana were all given U.S. citizenship and the United States agreed to honor all agreements between the Spanish and the Native Americans that had been made while Spain had controlled the land. The treaty was unclear about an important detail‚ however. The borders of the territory were not defined; the treaty simply stated that the extent of the territory would not change
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The Purchase of the Louisiana territory from France for 15 million dollars by today’s standards was clearly a great investment‚ but at its time it touched off a political firestorm of disagreement between both Thomas Jefferson’s Republican party and Federalists. The Republicans favored a system that provided constitutionally limited central government leaving the remainder to the states to control. In Jefferson’s view‚ anything that was written in the constitution was the responsibility of the
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