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THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
Quite possibly one of the most important purchases in the history of The United States was the one in which Thomas Jefferson enabled the size of the country to double. The territory was the Louisiana Territory, the 820,000 square mile piece of land was bought for 15 million dollars which equaled out to about three cents an acre. The United States originally only wanted to buy the port of New Orleans. Thomas Jefferson wanted to buy this because there was a risk that the half million Americans living west of the Appalachian would secede from the Union. Purchasing the port would keep them from seceding because they would then have a port that they could easily use to get to the ocean. The people in that region had been using the port until the Spanish stopped letting them use it. This posed a serious problem because then the only way to get goods to the ocean was over the Appalachian Mountains, and there were few roads that crossed the mountains. By adding the land west of the Mississippi the United States had the potential to become a very powerful nation. Jefferson learned that France had just obtained the Louisiana Territory from Spain. He proceeded to send James Monroe and the ambassador to France, Robert Livingston to the current leader of France Napoleon Bonapart. Napoleon needed money for the upcoming war with Britain, realizing that he had little hope for an empire in America any time soon he declared that the united States could have the port if it bought the entire territory. Jefferson quickly passed the treaty through congress and although there doubts about the purchase on April 30, 1803 the United States doubled it’s size. Jefferson had been planning to map out and explore the west for two decades. Before even acquiring the land Jefferson had been planning a small trip to explore the land he was so captivated by. His personal librar... Please login to view comments from other users.
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