MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Buying the Louisiana Purchase
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The election of 1800
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Marbury v Madison
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In early 1803, Jefferson appointed James Monroe as a special envoy to France. Monroe and Minister to France Robert Livingston would try to buy land east of the Mississippi or in New Orleans itself, or, if all else failed, to secure U.S. access to the river. Jefferson authorized them to negotiate up to $10 million.
Detailed explanation-2: -The “Louisiana Purchase” was both Domestic and Foreign policy because the purchase was help for US commerce and the US bought from a foreign country.
Detailed explanation-3: -It was deemed controversial because Jefferson was a strict constructionist of the Constitution and the Constitution does not explicitly state that the president or Congress could purchase foreign land.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 1803. The deal granted the United States the sole authority to obtain the land from its indigenous inhabitants, either by contract or by conquest.