Louisiana Purchase

President Thomas Jefferson purchased a nice amount of land from France in 1803, calling it the Louisiana Purchase. After the land bought in the Louisiana Purchase was officially part of the United States, Jefferson asked Meriwether Lewis to explore the new land. Meriwether then asked William Clark to join him in the exploration. In this […]

Describe the events leading to the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803. Discuss the terms of the treaty and how Jefferson reconciled his strict interpretation of the Constitution with the acquisition of the territory. Before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the entire Louisiana territory covered what is today known as the Midwest. The purchase […]

The state of Louisiana has a unique system for boundary law, which merges public domain, metes and bounds, and non-rectangular entities. Public Land system is used in the United States for the purpose of making a system for the Federal lands in the public domain States. The United States created laws for The Public Land […]