Federalists
The young united states gained more land that helped them almost achieve Manifest Destiny... also it doubled the size of the country.
There was nothing in the constitution about buying land.
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 828,800 square miles. It included all or part of fourteen US states, and parts of Albert Canada and Saskatchewan Canada.
The Louisiana Purchase was done by Thomas Jefferson who was a Democrat-Republican. The Federalist Party thus opposed the move.
The Louisiana Perchase
Federalists
The Louisiana Purchase
louisiana purchase.
The young united states gained more land that helped them almost achieve Manifest Destiny... also it doubled the size of the country.
There was nothing in the constitution about buying land.
The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 828,800 square miles. It included all or part of fourteen US states, and parts of Albert Canada and Saskatchewan Canada.
The constitution didn’t give rules about the purchasing of land.
He agreed to the Louisiana Purchase through loose interpretation of the Constitution, which was actually a characteristic of the Federalists, not the Republicans. The Louisiana Purchase also diminished the power of state governments, which was against the Republican view of state's rights.
The Louisiana Purchase was done by Thomas Jefferson who was a Democrat-Republican. The Federalist Party thus opposed the move.
Federalists, despite being the party that supported a strong central government, opposed the Louisiana Purchase. It was opposed mostly because President Thomas Jefferson, a Democratic-Republican who supported a strict, or narrow, view of the Constitution, went against his principles of small government and bought the territory anyway. The Federalists used this as fuel against Jefferson and the other Democratic-Republicans in an era where party politics sharply divided the country.
some effects were having to buy the territory and compromise with the federalists