Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase There were many advantages and disadvantages to the Louisiana Purchase for President Thomas Jefferson. Some of the advantages include: the US acquiring the port at New Orleans preventing war with France, the purchase doubled the land area of the US, and it displayed the ways of peace in American affairs. While there were several advantages, there were also disadvantages that came along with them. These included: Jefferson having to put aside his principles about the Constitution, Jefferson’s friendly foreign politics with France were compromised, and the obvious debt that came with the purchase. One of the several advantages of the Louisiana Purchase was the fact that the United States had control of the port at New Orleans. Napoleon had plans to re-establish France in the New World. However, these plans started to unravel when “France could not afford to send forces to occupy the entire Mississippi Valley,” according to an article called The Louisiana Purchase on www.moticello.com. If France could not afford to control the Mississippi Valley, then why not give up the idea of an empire in …show more content…
One of these included Jefferson having to put aside his principles about the Constitution. “The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less of incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing a fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of this country, have done an act beyond the Constitution. The Legislature in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, and risking themselves like faithful servants, must . . . throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation to do it,” Jefferson said (www.presidentprofiles.com). In order to accomplish a great achievement of growth,