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accurate maps were important to Eauropean explorers because while they were exploring the New World and claiming new land, the accuracy of the maps helped the navigators find the locations and measure the distances.
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Details of Louisiana Purchase: United States purchase 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River which previously belonged to the French Empire for $15 million.
At that time, Jefferson's had two main concerns about the deal :
- The region surrounding the purchased territory was shared between Spain and Great Britain. He's worried that a potential conflict might occurred with them because of the purchase
- The constitution did not directly stated that the president has the power to purchase the territory belonged to another countries.
