Quotation from: The Beginner's American History

Written by: D.H. Montgomery


[Illustration: Map showing the extent of the United States at the
close of the Revolution, and also when Jefferson became President
(1801).]


Jefferson saw that so long as the French held the door of New Orleans,
we should not be free to send our cotton down the river and across
the ocean to Europe. He said we must have that door, no matter how
much it costs.


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