Louisianna Purchase
... The Louisiana Purchase allowed America to expand its land and, in time, become one of the largest and most powerful countries in the world. ... Because of the purchase, America doubled in size buying the land for just three cents an acre. Because there was no constitutional amendment that said Jefferson couldn’t ‘negotiate treaties’ (220) which transferred large sums of land from one country to another, he didn’t know whether it would be right to make the Purchase. Even though Jefferson was a firm ‘constructionist’ (Barrons, 58), he was enthusiastic about the purchase of land because of what it could do for the American nation. ... The purchase brought upon many adventurers, looking to be the first to explore the great west. ... His purchase of western lands changed America forever.