When President Thomas Jefferson closed on this $15 million ... National Archives The Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled the size of the existing United States, provided Easterners with ...

The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the ... Horatio Gates, a prominent New York state legislator, told President Thomas Jefferson when details of the deal reached Washington, D.C ...

“Thomas Jefferson,” the ambitious ... affair (“It was a huge scandal,” says Ms. Gordon-Reed) with the Louisiana Purchase, which may have increased the geographic area of the U.S. by ...

The author of their manifesto was only33 years old: Thomas Jefferson ... was president of the United States -- for example,the Louisiana Purchase, which expanded the size of the United ...

Thomas Jefferson, the third president, was born on April 13, 1743. Several years ago, my wife Louise and I had celebrated by ...

Major Acts: Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, doubling the size of the United States. Jefferson commissioned the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark expedition to explore ...

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson will always be linked ... were some notable achievements in his first term, with the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark mission topping the list.

setting up the Louisiana Purchase.) But nobody has gone as far as Williams in accusing Jefferson of using Michaux as a pawn for his own political ends. Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation ...

Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet never denied himself a luxury; the slave owner ...