WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Question
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The new land allowed room for the population to expand.
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More land made the United States a weaker nation.
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The US did not expand in size after the year 1800
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803-over 600 million acres at less than 4¢ an acre-was an economic as well as a political victory, as it avoided a possible war with the French. The Louisiana Purchase demonstrates Jefferson’s ability to make pragmatic political decisions.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Effective October 1, 1804, the purchased territory was organized into the Territory of Orleans (most of which would become the state of Louisiana) and the District of Louisiana, which was temporarily under control of the governor and judicial system of the Indiana Territory.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.