<span>Before the Louisiana purchase, the US Territory extended to the east bank of the Mississippi river, but no further. When Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory to Jefferson, that purchase doubled the size of the United States... suddenly, the US owned the Great Plains, the Midwest, the eastern Rockies, and a piece of the Gulf of Mexico. </span>
This is Thomas Jefferson, who was a Republican leader when the party system took hold. He went on to become president of the United States and considered Alexander Hamilton to be a political rival.
<span>The War Powers Act was an intended check and balance on the President’s power. It would have meant that President Truman could not deploy US troops to Korea without the consent of Congress.</span>
<span>C. the Santa Fe Trail would be your answer.</span>
