Louisiana

The Louisiana Purchase Thomas Jefferson was an active hero, a spokesman for democracy, and the third president of these United States of America. As president, he was always faced with diversity; whether it was dealing with the Barbary pirates in the middle east, belligerent British trade policies, and even the greatest acquirement of all time: the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana purchase was one of the best procurements that could have happened to this great nation. That is why The purchase…

offered to sell Louisiana, all of the land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains for $15 million dollars, which happens to be the greatest real estate offer in history. I have desired to have a demanding budget, and think that buying this land will go against what I am wanting for America. This dilemma is a big decision that is put in my hands, and I want it to be the best for Americas’ future. Purchasing this land I feel like will negatively affect the Louisiana citizen by…

The Louisiana Purchase posed several significant moral dilemmas for President Thomas Jefferson, among these was not having the power to buy Louisiana. Before Thomas Jefferson was president he campaigned under the program to limit federal power. He felt that the federal government should not have more power than what the constitution granted it. When he became president he only had the power that the constitution allowed him to have. When France offered to sell the whole Louisiana territory,…

Thomas Jefferson’s controversial decision to purchase the Louisiana Territory in 1803 was a major event in American History. The land was conquered by France at the time after it was signed over to them by Spain and they were making plans of having a French empire in North America. These plans were soon to take less of importance by the fact that France had been fighting to try and regain power of their valuable colony of Saint Domingue. Around the same time the American government had been…

On December 20, 1803, the Louisiana Purchase was finalized, which resulted in the transfer of power over the territory from France to the United States. The Louisiana Purchase (1803) served as the catalyst for Westward Expansion in American society. Furthermore, it was an examination of conscience for President Thomas Jefferson, as he grappled with the constitutionality of an acquisition of this magnitude. In addition to this, the Louisiana Purchase (1803) transformed America into the…

believe Thomas Jefferson should buy the Louisiana Territory, in the interest of the Port of New Orleans for exporting and importing goods.To begin with the Louisiana Purchase being a great deal. The Louisiana Territory is a good deal for just 4 cents an acre. Addition that was in included is getting 828,000 acres of land that included the Port of New Orleans and Mississippi River. We are also getting more land to settle and people can live here in a Louisiana Territory. At the same time…

or your readers’ lives. Introduce the event and basic facts like people and places. Use at least three to five sentences. Have you been wondering what the huge land deal everyone’s talking about is? Well your pondering stops here. It’s called the Louisiana Purchase and it happened on July 4th 1803. It was a land deal between our country the United States and France. This was no ordinary deal; the purchase gave us about 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. The purchase was…

This paper is about the Louisiana Purchase. The land was purchased by the United States in the year 1803. “The Louisiana Purchase gave the United States undisputed control of the Mississippi Valley and the heart of the North American continent, an area of centuries-old contention among France, Spain, Great Britain, and more recently the United States.” The region was first explored by the French who had taken the territory of Quebec, province of Canada, and current who followed the banks of…

Section I, 1. Why was Napoleon willing to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States? How did Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase transform America’s understanding of itself and its future? Was it inevitable that the West would become part of a much greater United States? Napoleon Bonaparte, before he decided to sell Louisiana was already facing many problems. Toussaint Louverture, a French Revolutionist, succeeded in taking over Hispanola and was now the ruler and was now the ruler of French…

Jefferson’s moral dilemma of The Louisiana Purchase came from the fact that he had supported and believed in a strict interpretation of the Constitution. He worried whether the purchase would be legal, believing that he was not authorized to make the purchase, but did so anyway. One can also easily wonder how a man of great integrity could go against his own philosophy and strict interpretation of the United States constitution. By making the purchase of the Louisiana territory, Thomas Jefferson…