THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
WAR OF 1812
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New settlements could be built.
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People could earn a better living.
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People questioned whether the purchase should have been made.
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was one result of Jefferson’s purchase of the Louisiana Territory? New settlements could be built.
Detailed explanation-2: -In this transaction with France, signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward.
Detailed explanation-3: -On October 20, 1803, the Senate ratified a treaty with France, promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, that doubled the size of the United States.
Detailed explanation-4: -Acquiring the territory doubled the size of the United States. In November 1803, France withdrew its 7, 000 surviving troops from Saint-Domingue (more than two-thirds of its troops died there) and gave up its ambitions in the Western Hemisphere.
Detailed explanation-5: -The purchase doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution.