HSTY2034: US History to 1865 29 April 2004

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HSTY2034 US History to 186529 April 2004

• Jeffersonian America An Empire for Liberty

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Outline 1

• 1. The Jeffersonian Vision
• access to land ?self-sufficiency
• access to world markets?incentive
• The contradictions of Jeffersonianism
• Protecting commerce
• The ironies of self-sufficiency

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Thomas Jefferson
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Early View of Washington D.C.
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Outline 2

• 2. A Landed Empire
• Louisiana Purchase (1803)
• Lewis and Clark Expedition
• 3. A Commercial Empire
• Securing access to world markets
• Embargo Acts
• War of 1812

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Outline 3
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Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Louis Clarks Route
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The War of 1812