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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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    The Louisiana Purchase posed several significant moral dilemmas for President Thomas Jefferson‚ among these were political reality and strict constructionism. When Jefferson got offered the Louisiana territory from Napoleon he knew it was a great opportunity for the United States. It would double up the size of the United States and he would the ability to use the Mississippi River. He understood by expanding the United States would be very significant for the United States. But Jefferson did not

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    Christian Ruiz Mr. Kelley Period1 14 February 2013 Louisiana Purchase On April 30‚1803 the Louisiana territory‚ which was a third of the land for the new nation we call America‚ was purchased from France for fifteen million dollars. This helped fund Napoleon’s war against Great Britain. Thomas Jefferson made this decision because Jefferson did not want any other nation ruling in that territory‚ because Jefferson did not want to feel threatened with natives from the new land and France trying

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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. Napoleon thought that this land could be a great asset to the French if they knew what to do with it. He didn’t

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    1. Describe the events leading to the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803. Discuss the terms of the treaty and how Jefferson reconciled his strict interpretation of the Constitution with the acquisition of the territory. Before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803‚ the entire Louisiana territory covered what is today known as the Midwest. The purchase of the land was a monumental step in the expansion of the United States. Thomas Jefferson became the 2nd president of the United States

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    The Louisiana Purchase is often credited with being one of Thomas Jefferson’s greatest achievements of his first term as president. The territory was bought from France ‚ whose leader at the time was Napoleon Bonaparte. It was not planned for Jefferson to buy it‚ but it was a very good decision considering the circumstances that were given. “Jefferson knew that it was imperative to have access to the city of New Orleans‚ or eventually lose everything beyond the Appalachians”‚ page 178‚ paragraph

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    other major parts of American culture in the process. Beginning as early as the Louisiana Purchase in 1806‚ issues over slavery and expansion seemed to go hand in hand up until slavery was officially abolished by

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    By: joe The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of the French province of Louisiana by the United States in 1803. The province stretched from the Mississippi River westward to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico northward to Canada‚ covering an area equal to that of the United States‚ prior to the purchase. Except for the Mississippi River on the east and Canada on the north‚ the boundaries were indefinite. The United States also claimed West Florida between the Mississippi and Perdido

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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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    majority of the votes from the people would guide the course of the republic. Jefferson believed that a central government was the most simple and effective. Jefferson also thought that blacks and whites could not live in a world together and be seen as equals in society. Placing the good of the public before personal beliefs and desires was also a strong belief to Jefferson. Economy was placed before military so Jefferson reduced both taxes and the army. 2. Marbury v Madison was important because

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