Monroe, Livingston were forced? by Congress to offer up to $2 million to purchase the east bank of the Mississippi; Jefferson secretly advised them to offer over $9 million for Florida and New Orleans. Napoléon initially resisted U.S. offers, but changed his mind in 1803
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In terms of engineering, construction is the activity of putting together different elements, using a detailed design and plan, to create a structure for a certain location. ... Architects and engineers design and build the structure with that location in mind.
A slow change to the earth's surface would be the formation of mountain ranges over millions of years due to the shifting of tectonic plates under the earth. Also, another slow change could be considered erosion or weathering. Two rapid changes could be landslides and earthquakes.