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Louisiana Purchase
The Louisiana Purchase was done in the year 1803. In this purchase the United
States of America paid fifteen million dollars to get all the land west of the Mississippi
River and east of the Rocky Mountains. This transaction was done between Thomas
Jefferson and the great Napoleon. The benefits that the United States of America
experienced from this purchase were numerous. For one, it gave the U.S. complete
control of the Mississippi, which in tern helped many farmers with transporting
goods. Second, it more than doubled the size of the United States. With this huge
amounts of land, the government could set up more farms to feed the young but
growing nation. Despite these benefits, however, many people believe that the
Louisiana Purchase was an unconstitutional mistake, for it was not written that the
government could buy land from other nations. The question, however, still remains, was
the Louisiana Purchase a necessity for the young growing nation, or was the purchase
an unconstitutional act done by President Thomas Jefferson himself?
At the end of the French and the Indian War France had given up its claims to
lands west of the Mississippi to Spain. However, when Napoleon came to power he took
back the Louisiana lands from Spain. The news of this transaction reached the United
States government. This alarmed the president and the rest of the republicans, for
they feared the French control of the western lands. First of, it would get France to
occupy the western lands of America. France, as one may know, was a powerful and
aggressive nation, having France on America’s borders created fear of invasion among
the...
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