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The Lewis and Clark Expedition How would you feel if you were asked by the president to lead an expedition to explore new land? When America gained the Louisiana Purchase territory, a vast property from France to expand America, the government required someone to explore and chart the region. This party of explorers was led by Meriwether Lewis and Lieutenant William Clark. The expedition lasted three years with only one occupant of their crew dying along the journey. The Lewis and Clark…

This attitude remained because he was a soldier. Being a soldier taught him how to not only respect others, but earn respect. Clark helped our country better itself by leading everyone across the Louisiana Purchase, while setting an example of gratitude and respect for the future. In order to make this entire trip successful, we needed help from Native American tribes. Sacagawea made this possible. Since she was an Indian herself, others…

France to discuss acquiring New Orleans, but instead find out that Napoleon Bonaparte, in order to finance his war in Europe, was willing to sell all of the Louisiana territory to Jefferson and…

During the 18th and 19th century, the United States was experiencing rapid expansion and growth. The purchases of a wide expanses of land, like the Louisiana Purchase, allowed for the territorial expansion of the United States. This allowed presidents after Thomas Jefferson, who spearheaded western expansion, to follow suit with the idea of expansionism.1 While many other treaties and purchases helped with America’s growth, other factors also played into American territorial expansion. The very…

Thomas Jefferson found himself in 1803 contemplating the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France. ”At the time of purchase, Jefferson was concerned about the constitutionality of making a land acquisition without adding a covering amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The law of the land, however, did give the president treaty-making power, and the Louisiana Purchase was ratified into law as a treaty by the U.S. Senate. The Louisiana Purchase stands as the largest area of territory ever…

such. Thus, Lewis and Clark were respectful to the Native Americans and their cultures. The beginning of the Lewis and Clark expedition was the conception of the Corps of Discovery by Thomas Jefferson. The Corps was necessitated by the Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803, which more than doubled the amount of land that the United States owned. With all of the new land available to the young nation, Jefferson enacted a plan to explore it, and he included a provision for the treatment of the…

Constitution of the Clergy. The Civil Constitution Clergy divided the French nation, and Concordat of 1801 reunited them. He also put into play Code Napoleon, a law that helped the personal relationships between the people. Napoleon sold the Louisiana Purchase,…

Would it be hard to believe that almost a one quarter of modern day United States was purchased in one large transaction? Specifically 828,000 square miles of land. The Louisiana Purchase more than doubled the size of the United States in 1803. After signing a secret treaty to return the Louisiana territory to France, France wanted to sell the Louisiana territory because they did not believe it was worth the money or the trouble since they were having a hard time holding on to Saint Dominique in…

As is today, unfortunatley a politiians general belief may conflict with what they "know" is the right thing to do in the situation. Take the Louisiana Purchase by Jefferson. We see earlier that unless the Constitution stated a power was specifically granted to the federal government, it would be transfered to the state. However, at this time, Jefferson as president, was altering treaties and ultimately buying land when he himself admitted it was unconstitutional in private. Jefferson believed…

reselling it, you could have slaves do your work for you so you could focus on more important things or even selling things that you had found that didn’t even belong to you. Resources were what everyone was after; everyone had their own specialty and in order to get the other necessities you would need to trade what you had that others didn’t. Americans were selfish, no matter what kind of situation they were in they always found a way to cheat and get out of any promises they had made with…