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Westward Expansion		 Biography of America logo
WIth the Louisiana Purchase, the size of the United States douules, and Jefferson's vision of an Empire of Liberty begins to take shape.
Key Events

The Louisiana Purchase.

Maps

The Louisiana Purchase and the Mississippi River system.

Transcript

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Webography

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Maps have historically been tools of empire. Maps of the routes of the Lewis and Clark expedition have tended to represent the West as empty country, there for the exploring and taking. This 1932 sketch map of a portion of the route of the Lewis and Clark expedition, made by historian Laura Tolman Scott for a biography of Sacagawea, is a little different.

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