Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 41 11 July to 15 November 1803

Informationen zum Autor Barbara B. Oberg ! senior research scholar at Princeton University! was general editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson from 1999 to 2014. Klappentext The Louisiana Purchase dominates the months covered in this volume. Jefferson departs for Monticello to enjoy a needed respite after the busy three and a half months he has just spent in the nation's capital. Shortly before leaving Washington! he has a last meeting with his cabinet! after which he issues a proclamation to reconvene Congress on 17 October! three weeks early. It is the "great and weighty" business of the French government's stunning offer to transfer all of the Louisiana Territory to the United States that necessitates this important gathering. The event brings Jefferson enthusiastic congratulations from his friends and fellow Republicans. With Jefferson's great success! however! comes the reality of getting the agreement with France approved and implemented. The boundaries of the territory ceded are not even clear. In private letters to his trusted advisers! Jefferson discusses the proper course of action. Should both houses of Congress be called to consider the French offer? Is it prudent to make the substance of a treaty public? And perhaps most vexing! does this executive action require an amendment to the Constitution?Some Federalists criticize the plan! but an expansion of the nation's territory! proponents argue! will raise America's stature in the eyes of the world. With the widening of the country's borders! Jefferson's project to send an exploratory party westward seems even timelier. William Clark accepts Meriwether Lewis's invitation to join the expedition! and on the last day of August Lewis begins his journey down the Ohio River! the building of his boat finally complete. Zusammenfassung The Louisiana Purchase dominates the months covered in this volume. Jefferson departs for Monticello to enjoy a needed respite after the busy three and a half months he has just spent in the nation's capital. Shortly before leaving Washington, he has a last meeting with his cabinet, after which he issues a proclamation to reconvene Congress on 17 O...

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• Authors: Thomas Jefferson, Barbara B. Oberg, Thomas Oberg Jefferson, Jefferson Thomas
• Assisted by: Barbara B. Oberg (Editor), James McClure (Editor), Barbara Oberg (Editor), Oberg Barbara B. (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 25.01.2015
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
• EAN: 9780691164205
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16420-5
• Pages: 856
• Series: Papers of Thomas Jefferson; The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Subjects: USA, Napoleon, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Intendant, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, United States, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Politique, Tax, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Proclamation, Meriwether Lewis, United States of America, USA, Payment, Amendment, John Quincy Adams, History of the Americas, Slavery, Consideration, Aaron Burr, Republicanism, Smithsonian Institution, Joseph Priestley, legislature, cession, General Government, Commissioner, American Frontier, Thomas Paine, Salary, Treaty, Benjamin Hawkins, Albert Gallatin, Excellency, Citizens (Spanish political party), President of the United States, Frigate, Jay Treaty, Thomas Law (1756–1834), Whigs (British political party), John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General), Henry Dearborn, The Papers of James Madison, Benjamin Lincoln, Secretary at War, Tobias Lear, United States Revenue Cutter Service, Silas Deane, District Attorney, American National Biography, Postmaster General, Jérôme Bonaparte, Anglo-Americans, Provisional government, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Thomas Sumter, Horatio Gates, Richard Rush, DeWitt Clinton, William C. C. Claiborne, Impressment, Salutation, Fort Adams, Rufus Putnam, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Oliver Phelps, Treaty of Paris (1783), George Read (U.S. statesman), Jacob Crowninshield, indiana territory, United States Declaration of Independence, John Wesley Jarvis, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, West Florida, Lewis Washington, Surveyor General, Daniel Clark (Louisiana politician)