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Point of Divergence ... By way of the Louisiana Purchase, America almost doubled its size in 1803. However, this purchase almost didn't happen due to the fact that the Federalist Party at the time claimed that the purchase of territory from a foreign power was considered unconstitutional. President Thomas Jefferson agreed with this assertion, stating that although the Constitution did not provide guidelines for aquiring territory, but that his constitutional ability to negotiate treaties gave him power to proceed with the Purchase.

Lets say that Jefferson had been unsuccessful in his attempts to purchase the territory of Louisiana from the French, and the area of the United States today was cut off at the Mississippi River, with the border of the US being the states of Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. what happens to that French Territory and how does it impact the development of the US and world?
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