Mr. Jefferson's lost cause
land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Purchase
Views on slavery
Presidents & Heads of State
United states, politics and government, 1783-1865
United states, territorial expansion
Extension to the territories
United states, politics and government, 1775-1783
Family farms
Jefferson, thomas, 1743-1826
Land settlement
Territorial expansion
Slavery, united states
Political activity
Slavery
Influence
Political aspects
Politics and government
History
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers -- free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system -- particularly with the Louisiana Purchase -- squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. …
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