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Download or read book Louisiana Purchase written by Peter Roop and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The big purchase that led to fundamental questions about what America would become In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from the French for $15 million, extending the United States beyond the Mississippi River for the first time. Now the United States had big questions to answer: How would Louisiana be governed? How would it be divided? Would it be comprised of free states or slave states? What would happen to the Native Americans? With biographical sketches of the people who helped forge the answers to these questions, such as Lewis and Clark, Napoleon Bonaparte, and of course, Thomas Jefferson, this is the tale of the expansion of the United States into a new territory as well as a new era.
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Purchase by : Thomas Fleming
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase written by Thomas Fleming and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Louisiana Purchase Like many other major events in world history, the Louisiana Purchase is a fascinating mix of destiny and individual energy and creativity. . . . Thomas Jefferson would have been less than human had he not claimed a major share of the credit. In a private letter . . . the president, reviving a favorite metaphor, said he "very early saw" Louisiana was a "speck" that could turn into a "tornado." He added that the public never knew how near "this catastrophe was." But he decided to calm the hotheads of the west and "endure" Napoleon's aggression, betting that a war with England would force Bonaparte to sell. This policy "saved us from the storm." Omitted almost entirely from this account is the melodrama of the purchase, so crowded with "what ifs" that might have changed the outcome-and the history of the world. The reports of the Lewis and Clark expedition . . . electrified the nation with their descriptions of a region of broad rivers and rich soil, of immense herds of buffalo and other game, of grassy prairies seemingly as illimitable as the ocean. . . . From the Louisiana Purchase would come, in future decades, the states of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, and large portions of what is now North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Minnesota, Colorado, and Louisiana. For the immediate future, the purchase, by doubling the size of the United States, transformed it from a minor to a major world power. The emboldened Americans soon absorbed West and East Florida and fought mighty England to a bloody stalemate in the War of 1812. Looking westward, the orators of the 1840s who preached the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States to preside from sea to shining sea based their oratorical logic on the Louisiana Purchase. TURNING POINTS features preeminent writers offering fresh, personal perspectives on the defining events of our time.
Book Synopsis A Wilderness So Immense by : Jon Kukla
Download or read book A Wilderness So Immense written by Jon Kukla and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-09-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Wilderness so Immense, historian Jon Kukla recounts the fascinating tale of the personal maneuverings, political posturing, and international intrigue that culminated in the greatest land deal in history. Spanning nearly two decades, Kukla’s book brings to life a pageant of characters from Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, and John Jay, to Napoleon and Carlos III of Spain and other colorful figures. Employing letters, memoirs, contemporary documents, and a host of other sources, Kukla creates a complete and compelling account of the Louisiana Purchase. From the hinterlands in Kentucky to the courts of Spain, France, and England to the halls of Congress, he re-creates the forces and personalities that turned a struggle for navigation rights on the Mississippi into an event that doubled the size of the country and altered the destiny of the United States forever.
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898 by : Sanford Levinson
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898 written by Sanford Levinson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of Presidential power and brought to the surface profound legal and constitutional questions. As the nation continued to expand westward and into the Pacific and Caribbean, critical social, political and constitutional questions arose that greatly tested American resolve and reshaped the nation's founding premises. In this exciting collection, Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew Sparrow bring together noted scholars in American history, constitutional law, and political science to examine role that the Louisiana Purchase played in shaping both the expansionist policies of the nineteenth century and critical interpretations of the Constitution. The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898 provides a fascinating overview of how the U.S. Constitution and the American political system is inextricably tied to
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Purchase by : Blythe Lawrence
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase written by Blythe Lawrence and published by North Star Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Louisiana Purchase and the changes it led to. Authoritative text, colorful illustrations, illuminating sidebars, and a "Voices from the Past" feature make this book an exciting and informative read.
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Purchase by : Elaine Landau
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase written by Elaine Landau and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A basic discussion about the history of the Louisiana Purchase, and how the United States expanded their lands by buying the Louisiana Territory from France"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause by : Roger G. Kennedy
Download or read book Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause written by Roger G. Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger G. Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of the gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests (such as the powerful land companies that speculated in new territories and the British textile interests) that beat down slavery's many opponents in the South itself (Native Americans, African Americans, Appalachian farmers, and conscientious opponents of slavery). He describes how slaveholders' cash crops--first tobacco, then cotton--sickened the soil and how the planters moved from one desolated tract to the next. Soon the dominant culture of the entire region--from Maryland to Florida, from Carolina to Texas--was that of owners and slaves producing staple crops for international markets. The earth itself was impoverished, in many places beyond redemption. None of this, Kennedy argues, was inevitable. He focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farmers on land they coveted, by the enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself. Jefferson emerges as a tragic figure in a tragic period. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2003.
Book Synopsis Who Bought Louisiana? | Louisiana Purchase | U.S. Politics 1801-1840 | Social Studies 5th Grade | Children's Government Books by : Universal Politics
Download or read book Who Bought Louisiana? | Louisiana Purchase | U.S. Politics 1801-1840 | Social Studies 5th Grade | Children's Government Books written by Universal Politics and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know that Louisiana was not originally a part of the US? It was purchased in an effort to expand the American territory. As a book on social studies dedicated on the subject, your child will learn about the importance of the Louisiana Purchase as well as the unforgettable roles of James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and Napoleon Bonaparte. Read more from this book today!
Book Synopsis Jeffersons Louisiana Purchase by : Elaine Landau
Download or read book Jeffersons Louisiana Purchase written by Elaine Landau and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should the United States expand across the continent of North America or stay a small country? That was the big question in 1804, when the United States had a chance to buy the huge Louisiana Territory from France. Who would make this big decision? And how would it change the United States? Author Elaine Landau poses this and other exciting questions to the reader in this lively account of the Louisiana Purchase.
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Purchase by : Michael Burgan
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase written by Michael Burgan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-03-20 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the United States won its independence from Great Britain, it also won new lands. Soon, the Louisiana Purchase doubled the country's size. These new lands had to be explored and settled. Brave explorers, such as Lewis and Clark, soon blazed a trail to the West. How did the United States grow after the American Revolution? Why did Thomas Jefferson buy Louisiana from France? What did Lewis and Clark discover on their journey?
Download or read book Louisiana Purchase written by Alan Pierce and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the history surrounding the Louisiana Purchase.
Book Synopsis Jefferson's Great Gamble by : Charles Cerami
Download or read book Jefferson's Great Gamble written by Charles Cerami and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller! The fascinating story of how four great men fought for the Louisiana Purchase, changing the future of our nation. Jefferson's Great Gamble tells the incredible story of how four leaders of an upstart nation—Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Livingston—risked the future of their country and their own careers; outwitted Napoleon Bonaparte, the world's most powerful ruler; and secured a new future for the United States of America. For two years before the Louisiana Purchase, the nine principal players in the deal watched France and the United States approach the brink of war over the most coveted spot on the planet: a bustling port known as New Orleans. And until the breakthrough moment when a deal was secured, the men who steered their countries through the tense and often beguiling negotiations knew only that the futures of both nations were at stake. Jefferson's Great Gamble is an extraordinary work that redefines one of the most important and overlooked events in American history. To read Jefferson's Great Gamble is to experience the tense days and nights leading to a decision that changed the face of the world. From the early American infighting to the heated French negotiations to the battle needed years later to secure the purchase, this new history is a story of dedicated men, each driven by love of country, who created an event that Robert Livingston called "the noblest work of our lives."
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Purchase in American History by : Ann Graham Gaines
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase in American History written by Ann Graham Gaines and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events leading up to the Louisiana Purchase and its impact on United States history.
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Purchase by : Peter J. Kastor
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase written by Peter J. Kastor and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2002-09-27 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference anthology providing contributed essays by eminent scholars with excerpts of primary source documents (accompanied by explanatory head notes) to address the reasons why the Louisiana Purchase happened and to examine the tremendous changes it brought about. The introduction explains the details of the purchase. Chapters that follow explore the political cultures on both sides of the Mississippi River in the years immediately preceding the Louisiana Purchase the events immediately related to the Louisiana Purchase through the experiences of Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr (Jefferson's controversial vice president), Dehahuit (Caddo Indian chief), and Edward Livingston (politician and legal theorist); and the Louisiana Purchase's connections to American politics and constitutionalism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Purchase and the Exploration, Early History and Building of the West by : Ripley Hitchcock
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase and the Exploration, Early History and Building of the West written by Ripley Hitchcock and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Expanding a Nation by : Elizabeth Raum
Download or read book Expanding a Nation written by Elizabeth Raum and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Describes the causes of and effects of the Louisiana Purchase on US history"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis The Louisiana Purchase by : Robert D. Bush
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase written by Robert D. Bush and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1803, the United States purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation’s geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over the purchase, which many believed to be unconstitutional, during which time the land changed hands between the French and the Spanish. In perhaps the nation's most formative development since the Revolutionary War, the deal secured the U.S. territory that would become fifteen new states, sparked intense public argument about the American Frontier, and ensured Jefferson a complicated legacy in American history. With special attention to the diplomatic and constitutional background of the purchase, The Louisiana Purchase examines the event in the context of the Atlantic world, including the impact of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars in Europe, colonial revolutions in the Caribbean, and the westward expansion of the U.S. population. In five concise chapters bolstered by primary documents including treaties, letters, and first-hand observations, Robert D. Bush introduces students to the political history of this momentous land acquisition.
