The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 41 (eBook)

11 July to 15 November 1803

Thomas Jefferson (Autor)

Barbara B. Oberg (Herausgeber)

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2018
856 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18517-0 (ISBN)

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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.

Autor

Barbara B. Oberg, senior research scholar at Princeton University, was general editor of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson from 1999 to 2014.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Reihe/Serie: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Reihe/Serie: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Schlagworte: Aaron Burr • Albert Gallatin • Amendment • American Frontier • American National Biography • Anglo-Americans • Archibald Roane • Batavian Republic • Benjamin Hawkins • Benjamin Henry Latrobe • Benjamin Lincoln • British Library • cession • Charles Willson Peale • Christopher Gore • Citizens (Spanish political party) • commissioner • Consideration • Convention Between the United States and Great Britain (1930) • Daniel Carroll • Daniel Clark (Louisiana politician) • DeWitt Clinton • district attorney • Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte • Esquire • Excellency • Fort Adams • Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum • frigate • General Government • George Read (U.S. statesman) • Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History • Henri Christophe • Henry Dearborn • Holland Land Company • horatio gates • Impressment • Indiana Territory • Intendant • Internal Revenue Service • Invasion of England (1326) • invoice • Jacob Crowninshield • Jay Treaty • Jérôme Bonaparte • John Breckinridge (U.S. Attorney General) • John Carver (Plymouth Colony governor) • John Quincy Adams • John Wesley Jarvis • Joseph Priestley • Legislature • Lewis Washington • Martha Jefferson Randolph • Meriwether Lewis • Monsieur • Napoleon • New England • New France • Oliver Phelps • Payment • Politique • Port of entry • Postmaster General • President of the United States • proclamation • provisional government • Republicanism • Richard Rush • Rufus Putnam • salary • Sale of Dunkirk • Salutation • Samuel Miller • Samuel Osgood • Secretary at War • silas deane • Slavery • Smithsonian Institution • Supreme Court of Pennsylvania • Surveyor General • Tax • Tench Coxe • The Papers of James Madison • Thomas Law (1756–1834) • Thomas Paine • Thomas Sumter • Tobias Lear • Tories (British political party) • Treaty • Treaty of Amiens • Treaty of Paris (1783) • United States • united states declaration of independence • United States Department of State • United States Revenue Cutter Service • west florida • Whigs (British political party) • William C. C. Claiborne • William Eaton (soldier) • William Stephens Smith
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18517-4 / 0691185174
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18517-0 / 9780691185170