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- Who did Thomas Jefferson call on to explore the new land?
- Who owned the Louisiana territory before the United States purchases it?
- How did people transport their belongings to the new Louisiana Territory?
- Who finally gives the president the go ahead to purchase this territory?
- The Louisiana territory stretched from the Mississippi River in the east to what in the west?
- What was an important city and port in Louisiana that we needed?
- Who was the president at the time of the purchase of the Louisiana Territory?
- What did not allow for the president to be able to purchase land?
- What was the effect of the Louisiana Purchase on the United States?
- To stop the war with France over the Louisiana territory and over control of American Trade
- Find waterways to the Pacific Ocean, Learn about the Native Americans and the new Land
- Jefferson was a strict follower of the Constitution, and he didn't have the authority to buy land
- People along the Mississippi River became farmers, and they needed the port of New Orleans to trade their goods
- Jefferson could make treaties, so he decided the purchase was okay in the form of a treaty
- Extended the US from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
- He owned Saint-Domingue ( Haiti), but the Haitians rebelled for 10 years and won independence. He had to sell the Territory to pay for the war with Great Britain.
- In the 1848 elections, the new party that emerged as a political force was the
- Nineteenth-century leaders who are known for pioneering work in the feminist movement
- In 1850, outside of the United States, slavery in the Western Hemisphere also existed in
- One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies