Louisiana Purchase and Lewis & Clark Facts

In 1789, Saint-Domingue (today's Haiti) was the most profitable colony in the entire world. Today Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Napoleon's armies suffered more casualties...

"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." "An integral part of the...

Cost of the Louisiana Purchase: $15 million Cost per acre: 3 cents Land area added to United States by the Louisiana Purchase: 828,000 square miles Approximate ratio of the size of the Louisiana Pu...

Yeoman's Republic , yeomen, yeoman Thomas Jefferson's idea of an agrarian society, populated entirely by independent small farmers, whose freedom from economic dependency on others would make them...