- thicc purchase of land by jefferson from napoleon for the land west of the missippi river, including new orleans for $15 mil (3 cents per acre)
- jefferson had an existential crisis before buying bc there wasn't anything in the constitution about procuring land
- basically napoleon was trying to take over the new world after taking over, so jefferson sent envoys to scout out area and try to pry it out of napoleon's hands
- he told them to go try and buy it from france, and if that failed, form an alliance with britain
- napoleon didnt want an alliance btwn those two and also kinda gave up on taking over new world bc Haitian Revolution so he handed it to jefferson for super cheap
- lewis and clark's corps of discovery to help explore the area, producing scientific observations, maps, and knowledge of NAs in area