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 * The Louisiana Purchase happened during Jefferson’s Presidency. This purchase gave us 800,000 square miles of land. EM **
 * Jefferson sent james monroe and robert livingston to buy new orleans but Napoleon Bonaparte made an offer of 15 million for all of the territories. The only major conflicts that occurred during Thomas Jefferson's Presidency are the times in which British and French ships would capture American trading ships and use the sailors to help them. BS **


 * In 1801 the barbary wars happened. this is when the we the americans were paying 80,000 dollars to the barbary pirates to keep our ships and ship crews safe. After many years of this, the pirates upped the price to 250000 dollars up front and 25,000 in payment. Jefferson said it would be easier to fight so he assembled a navy that would protect the men overseas from pirates. BS **


 * The embargo act of 1807 was forced upon Thomas Jefferson because America’s merchant ships were being taken and the sailors were held captive by the French if the ships went to Britain, and then if they went to France they were taken by the British. The embargo act called for a war effort but not a physical war, it called for the use of economics to force the two nations to leave our trading ships alone. It said that we would not trade with the nations if the other nation kept stealing the American ships. Also that impacted our economy in a bad way, but then the demand for english supplies and trade rose in South America so we traded more with them and the difference was not changed in our trading. DK **

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 * Jefferson sent William Clark and Meriwether Lewis and a group of men to explore the recently negotiated louisiana territory **
 * to explore and record natural resources, animals, and to find one of the longest searched for objects which was the northwest passage which would connect the pacific and atlantic oceans for better trade. BS **