Louisiana

I don't think it was the Louisiana purchase was a good idea at the time. For a new country, we were pretty cocky I think. Obviously it was a good decision to stay out of France's whole revolution situation and making the country twice as big as it already is, it kind of is a big risk, because the government just made a system that works...for the small country that America was before. We had a hard time figuring everything out for just the few states that we owned before the Louisiana Purchase. Although obviously this was a good deal, 15$ million for everything up to the Rocky Mountains, but we aren't ready to govern a country thats 100% larger then what we're used to. I guess at the end of the day though, we knew that this opportunity wouldn't come again, so we have to take a chance and just do it, also it's better to know you're neighbors, in case they're planning on attacking you. So in this case, we were buying our neighbors land. It would get us more respect too, among the rest of the world, who sees us as a small country that has no support and is kind of poor, land=power, but money=power too, if you use the transitive property, does land=money? Because we definitely needed money.