was the Louisiana Purchase. There were many historical circumstances that resulted in the government’s action. Louisiana was originally owned by the French until France sold it to the United States. Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana in 1803. The influence of this geographic factor occurred because as the United States had expanded westward‚ navigation of the Mississippi River and access to the port of New Orleans had become critical to American commerce. The purchase of the Louisiana territory
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14th Amendment: After the 13th amendment was ratified‚ all the slaves were set free from their masters. But as time passed‚ the white people still treated them like a minority and in many ways it was as if they were still slaves. Yes‚ they were free to go wherever they wanted without being punished‚ but they were still not able to do many of the things that white people did. It was as if they had never really been freed. The Emancipated slaves suffered through terrible injustices and faced major
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Haiti and Toussaint L’Ouverture In 1791‚ a revolt broke out in the French Caribbean colony of St. Domingue. The colony was located on the western third of the island of Hispaniola. The rest of the island was controlled by Spain and known as Santo Domingo. St. Domingue was one of the wealthiest colonies in the Americas. It produced half of all the sugar and coffee exported to Europe and the United States. This wealth was the result of the work of enslaved Africans who were brutality treated
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Loran Ubriaco Professor Samuel Nicolosi English 110 December 4th‚ 2012 The New Orleans Saints: Taking Their City Back February 7th‚ 2010. Super Bowl XLIV. Four years post Hurricane Katrina. As smoke cleared from “The Who” halftime concert‚ Thomas Morstead‚ the kicker for the New Orleans Saints‚ set to kick the ball off to the Indianapolis Colts to start the third quarter. With the Saints down 10 to 6‚ and Indianapolis’s Chad Simpson standing in his own end zone ready to return the kick
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such as plantation or farms. Depending on their master’s ownership‚ the slaves might work along with their master calling it as task labor or largely with other slaves often watched by an overseer refer to as gang labor (Foner 416-417). Southern Louisiana cultivate largely of sugar field‚ gang laborers are always on their feet monitoring the field before it starts to rotten; abuse from an overseer if they’re not working harder enough. Though both labors are extremely exhausting jobs‚ but the task
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1. The Louisiana Purchase was of huge importance to the United States because it secured more trade opportunities. When President Thomas Jefferson purchased the land from France for only $15 million‚ it was for Jefferson’s own idea of how the U.S. should be. The purchase gave the United States access to the Mississippi river and to New Orleans‚ so that no other country could close it off and threaten the trade of the United States. The purchase was meant to strengthen the U.S’s trade with the other
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expanded the United States territory immensely. This purchase is known as the Louisiana Purchase‚ which is arguably the best decision in US history. With all the new land resulted in lots of unknown questions. Some of them were what does this land provide‚ what animals are out there‚ who can be found on this land? To answer some of these mysterious questions Jefferson sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to go explore the Louisiana Purchase. One of their stops on their journey was at what now is known
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America’s acquisition of the West took huge strides during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. A major move in American history towards this innuendo was the Louisiana Purchase in 1803‚ under Thomas Jefferson. It was a land deal between the United States and France‚ in which the United States acquired more than 800‚000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. Another major factor was the result of the Mexican-American War in 1848‚ the Treaty of Guadalupe. It was a peace treaty that
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At the age of 18‚ I decided to attend a local community college to fulfill started my education goals off. I attended Southern University in Shreveport‚ Louisiana in Shreveport where I accomplish so many goals. I was Freshman Class President‚ on the Chancellor Board‚ and in 2002 I was crowned Miss Southern University in Shreveport‚ Louisiana. Also in 2002 I received my Associate Degree in Business Management with a Minor in Accounting while doing this I was employed at a local casino. Once‚ I graduated
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This past summer I went to Louisiana with my wife and her family. It was the first time I’ve ever been to Louisiana in my life. This was going to be very special because I have never been out of Texas. We took this trip during summer break. My wife and I decided this trip so all of our family can go together. My father in law and I were taking turns driving it took us about 12 hours to get to Louisiana. The ride was very exhausting for everybodyI had gotten tired so my father in law took the wheel
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