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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We forget about the time when it took a year for a letter to get delivered from the east coast to the west coast. We forget that we did not just appear to be in this country and that everything was already here. The era that changed all that was called The Industrial Revolution. The industrial Revolution affected America in a significant way. It changed the world from rural 1800 ’s to the huge corporation of today. Through inventions and expansions this is what we have today was little by little built
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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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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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Part-time Jobs for Students: A Good Idea I‚ being employed with a part-time job‚ truly do believe that there is no wrong in having a part-time job while being a student. I honestly think that it is an awesome‚ great idea for students to have part-time jobs before they graduate from high school -- if they have the time and resources to do so. Students who are responsible‚ or learn responsibility‚ have nothing to loose but all to gain by having a job. There are a few key points that prove students
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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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a. Jefferson had many ups and downs during his presidency. Some achievements that he had were the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Embargo Act was one of his greatest failures. The Louisiana Purchase was his greatest achievement. Jefferson bought the land from the French and they easily agreed. The territory was bought for $15 million. “Jefferson had doubled the size of the United States and ended the French presence in North America.” (Foner 311) Lewis and Clark
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the reality was that our journey to gain this freedom and structure was a rocky road that caused a division among the American people. A couple of issues that caused a division among American society were the purchase of the Louisiana Territory and the expansion of slavery into new territories. Slavery has always been a controversial topic‚ and people had used their opinions to argue for their support or rejection of expansion of slavery into new territories. The Louisiana Territory was purchased
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