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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
Views on Freedom
President Thomas Jefferson - 1801-1809
Jefferson believed in freedom and wanted everyone to have it, but was a strict-constructionist; meaning he can not buy Louisiana since there is no mention of acquiring foreign territory.
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Property
Strict Constructionist
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