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The Louisiana purchase
Thesis
Views on Freedom
Property
Strict Constructionist
Interests in Louisiana
Foreign Countries
Freedom
How It Happened
Opposition
Purchase Details
Precedent of Expansion
Florida - 1819
Texas - 1845
Oregon - 1846
Mexican Cession - 1848
Gadsden Purchase - 1853
Paperwork
Process Paper
Annotated Bibliography
Property
Thomas Jefferson believed in freedom, but it is hard to achieve. To be free is to own property.
People need land or property to be free.
He wanted enough land for everyone to be free.
Louisiana was the perfect territory because it had so much wilderness and open ground.
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