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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
Interests in Louisiana
The two main reasons why Thomas Jefferson was interested in Louisiana was for foreign countries and freedom; he wanted to distance them from other countries and be the free country they are supposed to be.
Map of the countries Jefferson was afraid of.
Links to following pages:
Foreign Countries
Freedom
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