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TASK: Read and annotate the documents below to complete the chart.
DOCUMENT #1 - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John C. Breckinridge, August 12, 1803
"It is the case of a guardian, investing the money of his ward in purchasing an important adjacent territory; and saying to him when of age, I did this for your own good."
Glossary:
Ward = child
Adjacent = next to
DOCUMENT
What is the author saying?
(PURPOSE)
Does this document support the Louisiana Purchase?Why?
(YES OR NO)
EVIDENCE FROM TEXT
#1 - Jefferson Letter
(Primary Source)
DOCUMENT #2 - Eric Foner, Give Me Liberty [Modified]
The greatest achievement of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency involved his greatest achievement the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 … to take advantage of the sudden opportunity to purchase Louisiana, Jefferson had to abandon his conviction that the federal government was limited to powers specifically mentioned in the Constitution, because the document said nothing about buying territory from a foreign power.
… The cost $15 Million (the equivalent of perhaps $250 million in today’s money), made the Louisiana Purchase on of history’s greatest real estate bargains.
In a stroke, Jefferson had doubled the size of the United States and ended the French presence in North America. Jefferson admitted that he had “done an act beyond the Constitution.” But, he believed the benefits justified his transgression. Farmers, Jefferson had written, were the “chosen people of God” … Now Jefferson believed he had ensured the farmers of the United States political stability for centuries to come.
GLOSSARY:
Conviction = firm belief
Transgression = going against a rule or law
DOCUMENT
What is the author saying?
(PURPOSE)
Does this document support the Louisiana Purchase?Why?
(YES OR NO)
EVIDENCE FROM TEXT
#2 - Give Me Liberty Excerpt, Eric Foner
(Secondary Source)
DOCUMENT #3 - Representative Roger Griswold, one of the finest Federalist spokesman in the House, gave an anti- Louisiana speech in 1803. [Modified]
The incorporation of a foreign nation into the Union … destroys the perfect union contemplated between the original parties, by interposing an alien and a stranger to share the powers of government with them . . .
… The vast and unmanageable extent which the accession of Louisiana will give to the United States; the consequent dispersion of our population; and the destruction of that balance which it is so important to maintain between the Eastern and Western states, threatens, at no very distant day, the subversion of our Union.
GLOSSARY:
Contemplate = debate / think about
Interpose = putting between
Vast = large
Accession = addition
Consequent = result / effect
Dispersion = distribute
Subversion = power
#3 - Roger Griswold 1803 Speech (Primary Source)
what is the author saying?
(PUROPSE)
Does this document support the Louisiana Purchase?Why?
(YES OR NO)
EVIDENCE FROM TEXT
