An American history . The Louisiana Purchase Territory witli Statessubsequently made from it ? ? Route of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 7// jM-M-i- Western Boundary agreed on by Treaty with Spain, 1819 THE AGE OF NAPOLEON 273 398. Astoria. The West appealed also to the imaginationsof business men who saw in it hmitless possibilities of perceived these more clearly than a great merchant ofNew York, John Jacob Astor. He sent out an expedition offur traders, which estabHshed a post at the mouth of theColumbia and called it Astoria. Thus a further result of theLouisiana Purchase was the
An American history . The Louisiana Purchase Territory witli Statessubsequently made from it ? ? Route of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 7// jM-M-i- Western Boundary agreed on by Treaty with Spain, 1819 THE AGE OF NAPOLEON 273 398. Astoria. The West appealed also to the imaginationsof business men who saw in it hmitless possibilities of perceived these more clearly than a great merchant ofNew York, John Jacob Astor. He sent out an expedition offur traders, which estabHshed a post at the mouth of theColumbia and called it Astoria. Thus a further result of theLouisiana Purchase was the securing by the United States of afoothold on the Pacific. 399. Aaron Burr. The West enthralled the imagination ofstill another type of man. This was the political schemer,of which there was no better instance than the vice president,Aaron Burr, whose career is one of the strangest in our most starthng incident took place in 1804, when he shotAlexander Hamilton in a duel which Burr had forced uponhim.
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