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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMh8RCqJf9U

This is a background of the Louisiana Purchase to get our minds rolling


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Harriss, J. (2013, April). // How the louisiana purchase changed the world //. Retrieved from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-louisiana-purchase-changed-the-world-79715124/?page=1

This website tells why the Louisiana Purchase was so important at the time. It talks about how the purchase doubled the whole united states. It also talks about how the land was exactly purchased.

Here is a really good quote that we could use in our essay showing the true importance of the purchase.

"The Louisiana Purchase, made 200 years ago this month, nearly doubled the size of the United States. By any measure, it was one of the most colossal land transactions in history, involving an area larger than today’s France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and the British Isles combined. All or parts of 15 Western states would eventually be carved from its nearly 830,000 square miles, which stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. And the price, $15 million, or about four cents an acre, was a breathtaking bargain.“Let the Land rejoice,” Gen. Horatio Gates, a prominent New York state legislator, told President Thomas Jefferson when details of the deal reached Washington, D.C. “For you have bought Louisiana for a song.”" (Harriss, 2013)


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Mannino, E. (2013, February 1). // How the louisiana purchase transformed america //. Retrieved from http://edmannino.com/blog/how-the-louisiana-purchase-transformed-america/

This is another good website that describes why the purchase was good because it made the government a true democratic government. Before this the government was controlled by virginia and other states had limited say. This expansion allowed for more states to have word and closed the nation bank.

Here is another really good quote to show that the expansion bettered the government and corruption.

This expansion of the nation into the West led to a coalition which significantly democratized the government of the United States. It was no longer the New England Puritans or the Virginia Cavaliers who ruled the country. Jackson’s base was a new coalition, which he described as composed of “the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers.” While many of the mechanics and laborers lived in the original colonies, particularly Irish immigrants in New York, westerners formed a significant part of the Jacksonian coalition. They opposed monopolies and vested interests, leading Jackson to eliminate the Bank of the United States in favor of state-chartered institutions. Settlers in the South and West also sought protection from Native Americans, and Jackson was ruthless in relocating them to present-day Oklahoma and other locales, segregating them there away from American settlers. (Mannino, 2013)


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Oklahoma Historical Society. (n.d.). // Westward expansion, 1803-1861 //. Retrieved from http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/w/we021.html

This article shows that the expansion west would not of happened with the Louisiana purchase. It explains expeditions that showed how wonderful the land is and gave the potential for settling and resources being harvest.

Another quote about how great the west is to the union

By 1861, then, most of Jefferson's expectations for the Louisiana Purchase had been realized, at least in Oklahoma. Early official and unofficial exploring parties demonstrated that it was a land of natural beauty brimming with exploitable resources. Subsequent expeditions proved its value as a barrier to the diffusion of the American population and to the northward expansion of Spanish influence. (Oklahoma Historical Society)


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Alexander, B. (n.d.). // West’s economy outperforming rest of united states //. Retrieved from http://headwaterseconomics.org/land/reports/west-wide-summary

This page has graphs about the west economics and how it is better than any other part of the nation. This would not be possible without the louisiana purchase.

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