This film is a reading of Thomas Jefferson's 1804 address to Congress, in which he informs Congress that the lands formerly belonging to France in North American now belong to the United States.
Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the infant United States, spreading the nation from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains.
Jefferson was the third president of the United States.
The Louisiana Purchase added almost one million square miles to the United States.
Jefferson purchased the territory from Napoleon of France.
Primary documents are surviving records from historical times, and they are how we know what happened in previous times.
This short film is by Jeffrey Meyer, Research Librarian, Iowa