A history of the United States for schools . e for$15,000,000. By making this purchase, Jefferson morethan doubled the area of the United States. Before1803, that area was 827,844 square miles ; Jeffersonspurchase added over 900,000 square miles, out of whichhave since been formed the states of Louisiana, Arkan-sas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Mon-tana, and the twoDakotas, with agreat part of thestates of Minne-sota and Colo-rado, and also theIndian Territory,including Okla-homa. The Constitu-tion gave no ex-press power tothe president thusto add new terri-tory to the UnitedStat
A history of the United States for schools . e for$15,000,000. By making this purchase, Jefferson morethan doubled the area of the United States. Before1803, that area was 827,844 square miles ; Jeffersonspurchase added over 900,000 square miles, out of whichhave since been formed the states of Louisiana, Arkan-sas, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Mon-tana, and the twoDakotas, with agreat part of thestates of Minne-sota and Colo-rado, and also theIndian Territory,including Okla-homa. The Constitu-tion gave no ex-press power tothe president thusto add new terri-tory to the UnitedStates, but thispurchase was so clearly for the good of the nation thatpeople generally applauded it. Many Federalists atfirst tried to condemn it, but they could only do so byabandoning their loose construction of the ElasticClause (§ 105). West of the Louisiana territory, and north of theLewis and Spanish possessions, was a magnificent andClark. fertile country where white men had never set foot. To what nation* Oregon belonged was PREBLE MEDAL (OBVERSE). THE PERIOD OF WEAKNESS. 2S3 Its great river had been discovered, in 1792, by CaptainRobert Gray, of Boston, in the good ship Columbia,whose name he gave to the river. The illustrious Brit-ish sailors, Cook, Meares, and Vancouver, had exploredparts of the coast. In 1804, President Jefferson sent anoverland expedition under Captains Meriwether Lewisand William Clark. These explorers ascended the Mis-souri River to its sources, then found the valley of theColumbia, and explored it down to the Pacific Ocean, thus strengthen-ing our claim tothe possession ofOregon. The story of this greatexpedition is fullof charm. The Mahometanstates of Tripoliand Tunis, Al-giers and Mo-rocco, had longmade a businessof piracy. Theircruisers swarmedupon the Medi-terranean and the Atlantic, and robbed the merchantships of Christian nations. The plunder which thepirates carried home they divided with theirrobber sovereigns. Distmguished cap
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