...the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition have an impact on westward expansion and how did Jefferson's message to Congress (1803) show his vision for the new republic? The reasons why the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis Clark Expedition had an impact on the westward expansion, including the reasons why Thomas Jefferson arranged the journey, a summary of his vision for the new republic (Jefferson’s Secret Message) and the outcome of his vision as it relates to the Westward Expansion. “The portion of their country most important for us is exactly that which they do not inhabit. Their settlements are not on the Mississippi, but in the interior country. They have lately shown a desire to become agricultural; and this leads to the desire of buying implements and comforts. In the strengthening and gratifying of these wants, I see the only prospect of planting on the Mississippi itself, the means of its own safety. Duty has required me to submit these views to the judgment of the Legislature; but as their disclosure might embarrass and defeat their effect, they are committed to the special confidence of the two Houses.” (Jefferson, 1803) Taken from Thomas Jefferson’s Secret Message to Congress of 1803. This excerpt introduces the vision of Thomas...
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...ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Thomas Jefferson and the Purchase of Louisiana Annotated bibliography 1. Esmond Wright, “THE RELEVANCE OF MR. JEFFERSON, “Virginia quarterly review 76, no.3 (2000): 379, http://ehis.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/eds/detail?vid=18&hid=120&sid=cb07f42a-e296-4a5d-baa5-5b4c39975cbe%40sessionmgr13&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=3313415 (accessed November 28, 2012) Database: Academic Search Complete, (accessed November 28, 2012) My research topic is on Thomas Jefferson and the purchase of the Louisiana Territory. I have chosen the database above because Part of the article describes the family background and political liabilities of Thomas Jefferson former president of the United States. Thomas Jefferson was a powerful advocate of liberty. He was born in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia from a wealthy family. He went to a very good school and also attended the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg where he received a good training in Philosophy and law. He became a linguist and also loved to read books on diverse subjects. According to Esmond Wright, Thomas Jefferson’s interests were catholic. He married a widow Martha Skelton in 1772 and took her to his house in Monticello. After Martha died in 1872, Jefferson was suspected to have an intimate relationship with Martha half-sister Sally Hemings who was biracial. Even though his political liabilities were impressive, he was...
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...Louisiana Purchase 1803 Bridget Cochran 01/28/2012American InterContinental University |...
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...U.S. History Mr. Parnell Jefferson’s Dilemma In the spring of 1803 the United States was offered the opportunity to double its land size by purchasing the Louisiana Territory from the French. During this time Thomas Jefferson was in office serving as our 3rd president. Along with the decision of purchasing the land, Jefferson faced many other difficulties that could have both positive and negative effects on the United States. After hearing word that the Territory had shifted out of Spain’s hands in 1802, Jefferson knew he had to act while Napoleon Buonaparte was still in control of the land. Jefferson did not want to form an alliance with Britain but at the same time he did not want to go to war with France, he had to be vigilant in...
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...The Louisiana Purchase had many advantages and disadvantages including moral dilemmas for President Thomas Jefferson that made him go against his own beliefs. The Louisiana Purchase almost doubled the size of the United States and it wasn’t that expensive, but nowhere in the constitution does it say a president can acquire land using funds because a president doesn’t have that kind of power and, President Jefferson was very fond of the Constitution, yet he went against it so he could buy it. The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal in 1803 between the United States and France, where France gave around 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River to the United States for $15 million (monticello.org). 15 states were eventually made...
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...Thomas Jefferson was a father, gardener, designer, thinker, writer of the Declaration of Independence, and the third president of the United States of America. The Jeffersonian presidency was a dark, but essential, era for America. Regardless of his best intentions, Jefferson’s presidency caused much harm to the United States. The main reason for this was because Jefferson constantly contradicted his beliefs when he purchased the Louisiana Territory, during the War with Tripoli. Despite his constant hatred for the Hamiltonian ideals, he did nothing to repeal them. Thomas Jefferson’s time in office was completely hypocritical, as he repeatedly went against his own beliefs. To begin with, Jefferson went against his Democratic-Republican ideals...
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...Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States. He was born on April 13th, 1743 into one of the most prominent families of Virginia’s planters elite. Jefferson began his formal education at the age of nine, studying Latin and Greek at a local private school run by the Reverend William Douglas. In 1757, at the age of fourteen, he took up further study of the classical languages as well as literature and mathematics. Later, the Anti-Federalist was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1768 and joined its radical bloc. In 1775, He attended the Second Continental Congress, which created the Continental Army and appointed Jefferson's fellow Virginian, George Washington, as its commander-in-chief. Furthermore, he went on to draft the Declaration of Independence, and following that served as the Vice President of the United States to John Adams (“Thomas Jefferson”)....
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...Name: Sudeep MAINALI Course: 1301:83428 April 14, 2016 Knowledge in Action 3 The original “Man of the People,” Thomas Jefferson, was born on April 13 in 1743.Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence and the third U.S. president, was a leading figure in America’s early development. During the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), Jefferson served in the Virginia legislature and the Continental Congress and was governor of Virginia. He later served as U.S. minister to France and U.S. secretary of state, and was vice president under John Adams (1735-1826). Jefferson, who thought the national government should have a limited role in citizens’ lives, was elected president in 1800. During his two terms in office (1801-1809), the U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory and Lewis and Clark explored the vast new acquisition. Although Jefferson promoted individual liberty, he was also a slave-owner. After leaving office, he retired to his Virginia plantation, Monticello, and helped found the University of Virginia. Jefferson attacked this system by helping abolish primogeniture and entail, two long-standing traditions that directed inheritances to a single heir. Under the new system, a more equal distribution of lands was encouraged. Since only landowners were eligible to vote, an increase in the number of landowners would increase the number of eligible voters. Further, by making immigration a less complicated and exclusive process, new families arrived...
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...The Louisiana Purchase began right after the election In Washington D.C. around 1800. President Thomas Jefferson had this belief that if people were able to obtain land, the would be able to endure. On the other side of the world in France, Napoleon Bonaparte convinced Spain Into giving them the territory Louisiana. After hearing about France buying spain, Jefferson was very apprehensive, for he believed it would cause problems with shipping on the Mississippi River. Because of his nervousness, he sent Robert Livingston, and James Monroe to try and block Napoleon from getting the Louisiana Territory. In 1803, Napoleon had plans to conquer Europe. The only problem was he was low on funds to do so. With Jefferson’s authorities in the...
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...France explored the Mississippi River Valley then started settlements on land that would turn into fifteen states. At four cents an acre Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States for a total of $15 million. After the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on a expedition to discover the new land. On the trip Jefferson had them make a detailed map of what they saw and went different terrains they encountered. In the beginning of the Seventeenth Century after France they explored the territory they established scattered settlements in this region. During the Eighteenth Century, the United States was controlled more by France than any other European power. France then ceded French Louisiana west of the Mississippi to Spain. Since it was ceded, the United States did not know about it. This took place during the French and Indian War [1754-1763]. The French transferred nearly...
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...Thesis Statement: The purchase of the Louisiana territory was an unplanned occurrence that had multiple factors other than the treaty, that lead to the final succession of the United States’ ownership of the land. Introduction: In Jefferson Buys Louisiana Territory, and the Nation Moves Westward, published in the spring of 2003, the authors Wayne T. De Cesar and Susan Page establish the idea that the Louisiana Purchase was more than just a quick deal among the top French and American Diplomats in April of 1803. And it took more to complete the Louisiana Purchase than the treaty itself. Wayne T. De Cesar and Susan Page prove this to be true with the following arguments: to fill Jefferson’s dreams of being the most powerful and prosperous,...
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...to the documentary The Louisiana Purchase is the largest land purchase in the US history, doubling the size of the US in an overnight negotiation with France. The land of Louisiana was considered worthless, but wanted by many due to the port of New Orleans. The purchase could be considered one of the greatest accomplishments of President Thomas Jefferson. In 1682 Louisiana is claimed in the name of the French king Louie XIV by Robert de La Salle a French explorer. The land is occupied by Indians and a few settlers during the exploration with the land being noted as mostly swamp land. For the next one hundred years only a few military outposts are put into place by the French. In 1762 after the end of the French and Indian War, Louisiana...
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...The acquisition of the Louisiana territory by the United States on April 30th, 1803 from France was a crucial and prosperous event in American history. As in The Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson once said, “This little event, of France’s possessing herself of Louisiana is the embryo of a tornado which will burst on the countries on both sides of the Atlantic and involve in its effects their highest destinies” (Zurn 101). Without the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. would not have grown and prospered into the nation it is today without the territory’s exploration, discovery, mobility, and political debate. To begin, after months’ of negotiation, the acquisition of the Louisiana territory led to the largest enthusiasm for expansion the U.S....
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...September 9, 2014 Thomas Jefferson: An American Icon Thomas Jefferson is one of the most important historical icons in American history. His legacy not only resides in his actions during his presidency, but also in his contributions to the nation before and after his terms in office. One of his most famous contributions to the nation was his role in drafting the Declaration of Independence that served as a formal declaration for the U.S. to separate from Britain and become a separate nation. It was because of this document that the U.S is the nation it is today and it will serve as a permanent reminder of his hard work and dedication to the country. However, more is to be learned of Jefferson for his actions helped shape and change the American ways of life forever. Beginning with his election in 1800, Jefferson’s election was a landmark of world history as it was the first time that a peaceful transfer of power from one party to another in a modern republic took place. While delivering his inaugural address on March 4, 1801, Jefferson spoke to the fundamental commonalities uniting all Americans despite their partisan differences. He is quoted as saying, "Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.” He goes on to state, “We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists." But what made president Jefferson's first term in office so remarkably successful and productive was Jefferson’s ability to strip...
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...Thomas Jefferson author of the declaration of independence was born April 3, 1743 in Virginia. Jefferson was the third president of the united states and founder of the university of virginia. Thomas Jefferson was the son of Peter Jefferson, a successful planter and surveyor. His mother Jane Randolph was a member of one of the most families in virginia. Jefferson inherited land from his father and started building monticello at age 26. Three years later he married Martha Wayles Skelton. During this marriage he had six kids, only two survived until adulthood. At the age of nine Jefferson began his formal studies. He did boarding school until the age of sixteen. In 1760 he enrolled at the college of William and Mary. During this time he took science, mathematics, rhetoric, philosophy, and literature. Jefferson looked up to William Small as a mentor. He also pursued legal studies with George Wythe. Jefferson was perhaps one of the best read lawyers upon his admission to the Virginia bar in April 1767. The study of law meant a lot to Jefferson. He felt that legal issues allowed him to consider many aspects of society, including its history, politics, culture, institutions, and the moral conscience of its people. During this time not many people could afford the education that he...
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