{"id":2975,"date":"2019-02-05T21:46:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T21:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2020-08-31T17:50:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T17:50:28","slug":"louisiana-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/2019\/02\/05\/louisiana-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By any standard, the Louisiana Purchase was a monumental achievement.\u00a0 The nation acquired 287,000 acres, doubling its territory at a cost of roughly fifteen cents per acre, one of history&#8217;s greatest real estate steals.\u00a0 Control of the Mississippi would tie the West firmly to the Union, enhance U.S. security, and provide enormous commercial advantages.\u00a0 Napoleon&#8217;s sale of Louisiana all but eliminated a French return to North America, leaving the Floridas hopelessly vulnerable and Texas exposed.\u00a0 The United States&#8217; acquisition of Louisiana established a precedent for expansion and empire and gave substance to the idea that would later be called Manifest Destiny.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211;George Herring,\u00a0<em>From Colony to Superpower,\u00a0<\/em>p. 107<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Herring describes Thomas Jefferson as a &#8220;practical idealist.&#8221; Does the story behind the Louisiana Purchase embody this description?\u00a0 What about afterwards, as President Jefferson pivoted toward the acquisition of Spanish Florida?<\/li>\n<li>Jefferson&#8217;s approach to expansionism and other foreign policy matters represented something of a departure from his predecessors.\u00a0 How did he try to change both the nation&#8217;s diplomatic strategy and also diplomatic style as president?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2976\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/02\/louisiana_purchase.jpg\" alt=\"LA purchase\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/02\/louisiana_purchase.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/02\/louisiana_purchase-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/02\/louisiana_purchase-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/files\/2019\/02\/louisiana_purchase-456x300.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/jefferson\/louisiana-purchase\">Summary &amp; Context<\/a> (Jefferson&#8217;s Monticello)<\/li>\n<li>Robert Lee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/history\/2017\/03\/how_much_did_the_louisiana_purchase_actually_cost.html\">&#8220;The True Cost of the Louisiana Purchase,&#8221;<\/a> <em>Slate<\/em>, March 1, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;By any standard, the Louisiana Purchase was a monumental achievement.\u00a0 The nation acquired 287,000 acres, doubling its territory at a cost of roughly fifteen cents per acre, one of history&#8217;s greatest real estate steals.\u00a0 Control of the Mississippi would tie the West firmly to the Union, enhance U.S. security, and provide enormous commercial advantages.\u00a0 Napoleon&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71431],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syllabus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-282pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}