Purchase order

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 also quite costly but doubled the size of the U.S. at that time. Second paragraph: Discuss one reason…

The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 nearly doubled the size of the United States and provided them with access to crucial geographic features. The young United States was going through difficult times trying to interpret and tweak their new constitution so they could expand the country. During this time, President Thomas Jefferson, described by Henry as “always stating his strong belief that the federal government’s powers should be interpreted strictly” (Browan 35). Jefferson believed there would…

a country has the manpower and resources for future perseveration of its nation. After the war of 1812 many of America’s attention turned to exploration/settlement of its territory to the West which had been greatly influenced by the Louisiana Purchase. It is still argued that one of the most significant times in history for the United States was the acquisition of an enormous land west of the Mississippi River in 1803 by President Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson had a plan for the nation that…

Continued westward expansion throughout the colonization of America was a necessary growth in order to deal with many increasing tensions and population densities. At the time of the Royal Proclamation line in 1793, Americans had already begun traveling and settling in new areas past the Appalachian mountain range. Farmers, squatter, and religious reformers were some of the masses of people who made the trip out west in hopes of finding land to provide for their kids. Relief from the rule of the…

frontier. The United States was no longer content with its success of the American Revolution, and sought to expand its country. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from the French for merely pennies per acre. The Louisiana Purchase was the start of romanticism because it enabled settlers to explore the untamed west. The new western frontier transcended Americans towards embracing nature and began the shift away from the fundamental truths of the rational era.…

1.I feel that Alexander Hamilton had the more sustainable vision for the United States. This is because his Federalist ideals were more practical for American in the long term. Specifically, his ideas. He understood that in order for the US to be able to deal with huge debts they would need financial backing. This is seen when he creates his financial plan and asks Congress to charter the Bank of the United States. The Bank was better long term as it it handled making loans, government funds,…

Dominique Toussaint, or L’Ouverture. Napoleon then had to sell the territory in order to keep things under control. He ended up selling the territory to the United States in 1803 for $15,000,000 dollars, which included the land west of the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. This newly acquired land stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Border, and more than doubled the size of colonial America. This purchase turned the nation’s eyes westward and in turn led directly to the…

When President Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, he made a decision that would forever alter the destiny of the United States – something Jefferson was acutely aware of at the time. Although beneficial to the growth of the young nation, the deal was highly controversial within the United States when signed, as Jefferson had seemingly overstepped his executive boundaries as established by the Constitution. Neither the acquisition of such a vast tract of land…

The beliefs and values embraced by Thomas Jefferson in his Letter to James Madison can be seen by some as archaic and insensible to a growing society. Although America’s values on the basis of economy and society have shifted somewhat, a few of his ideas can still be interwoven into how America regards itself. Another writing of Jefferson’s will be referenced in the course of this essay, since it has a clearer sense of why Jefferson felt the way he did about agrarian societies. This writing is…

In 1804 two men, under Jefferson’s orders, set out to find more scientific and political information about the western side of North America. They suffered harsh conditions, but luckily only one man died. On their journey they met a young Indian woman, Sacagawea, and her husband, who became their translators and friends. Along the way they also met many other Indians and learned about their cultures and traditions. Then later, they taught other Native Americans about the plants, rivers, animals,…