Peter Bolton-King, chief executive of the NAEA, said: The coalition believes that stamp duty is an anachronistic tax which, in its current form, is preventing a recovery in the housing sector.
The Exploration of the Louisiana Purchase. It is often said that the purpose of the Lewis and Clark Expedition was to explore the Louisiana Purchase, the vast land purchase that doubled the size of the United States. In fact, the expedition had been planned and Jefferson was intent on it proceeding before the United States had any expectation of purchasing land from France.
The Louisiana Territory was an area of 828,000 square miles of land that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. It was owned by France. France had turned this territory over to Spain in 1762. By 1800, France had gotten the territory back by a secret treaty. Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to make France the greatest global empire of the world. He wanted to use Louisiana as a trade center for the island of Hispaniola where Haitians lived.