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.
Meriwether Lewis Describes Crossing the Rocky Mountains. These selections from Meriwether Lewis' journal describe the crossing of the Rocky Mountains, a particularly hazardous stretch of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.In 1804 President Thomas Jefferson commissioned Lewis and William Clark to explore the vast territory of the Louisiana Purchase, recently acquired from France.oth Lewis and Clark, along with several other members of the Corps of Discovery, recorded their impressions of the expedition's often-perilous journey in carefully detailed journal entries.