When Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France, he altered the shape of a nation and the course of history.The Louisiana Purchase eventually doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution
Explanation:Jefferson's vision of obtaining territory from Spain was altered by the prospect of having the much more powerful France of Napoleon Bonaparte as a next-door neighbor. France had surrendered its North American possessions at the end of the French and Indian War.
The nation grew because it doubled in size when the Louisiana Purchase was made. The nation was now expanded to the Appalachian Mountains. Jefferson faced challenges because many people critiqued his decision and criticized him for making the purchase.
In the early 17th century Galileo was indeed convicted of heresy because he claimed that Earth revolved around the Sun. This conviction was an example of an religiously motivated conviction of someone who had the best intentions in mind in the sense of mankind achieving greater knowledge.
