In 1803, Thomas Jefferson produced one of the greatest American achievements amid his administration. This success occurred when Jefferson sent James Monroe and Robert Livingston to France to organize an arrangement with Napoleon Bonaparte, a French Leader, about securing New Orleans for ten million dollars. However, Bonaparte offered the entire Louisiana Territory, New Orleans, and the New Orleans Port to the United States for fifteen million dollars instead. This arrangement advanced Jefferson to become uncertain about what’s located west of the Mississippi and the thirty-first parallel, thus inevitably allowing Jefferson to formulate and pass a bill to congress to discover the unknown areas of the newly obtained land with the assistance of Lewis and Clark.
After Congress passed the bill for this investigation, Lewis and Clark were finally given a reason to investigate and acquire as much information possible about this new land. Furthermore, after the expedition into this unknown area, Lewis and Clark returned to Jefferson with a vast amount of information regarding all the discoveries that were procured, which inevitably advanced Jefferson to send Lewis and Clark to the west with numerous objectives in …show more content…
Additionally, the U.S. government had taken much of the Indians land, and they feared that the Indians would eventually retaliate. From March 4, 1889, the U.S. government, with the aim of securing free homes under their beneficent laws, had taken more than “23 million acres from Indian reservations” (Turner 78). The U.S. government thought that this act would have produced rebellion from the natives, hence, the attack of the Native Americans at Wounded Knee, which was a measure of preventing a much more fatal attack on the “white settlers” (Walker 297). Thus advancing Harrison to state that the attack brought the hostiles into subjection with the least possible fatalities on either