An example was the LOUISIANA PURCHASE of 1803. As a Republican, Jefferson initially felt that the president did not have the power to make such a large purchase (828,000 square miles).

Napoleon needed the money immediately to help fund a war with Great Britain. Jefferson had serious doubts about whether he could move forward with an outright purchase — the Constitution did not grant the president the right to negotiate this kind of property deal.

President THOMAS JEFFERSON was unsure if the Constitution authorized the acquisition of land, but he found a way to justify the purchase. President Jefferson became concerned that France had control of the strategic port of New Orleans, and sought to purchase the port and West Florida.

In response, Jefferson sent future U.S. president James Monroe to Paris to aid Livingston in the New Orleans purchase talks. In mid-April 1803, shortly before Monroe’s arrival, the French asked a surprised Livingston if the United States was interested in purchasing all of Louisiana Territory.

What was the impact of the Louisiana Purchase? The Louisiana Purchase eventually doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution.

History of California Minimum Wage

Sizes varied, and ranged in prices from a few thousand dollars to about ten thousand dollars for a four to six room home. Some were designed for one family but quite often they were designed for more than one family to live next to one another.

A loaf of bread in the ’20s would cost around $0.12, which is about $1.55 nowadays. A dozen eggs would cost the equivalent of $6.08 today, which is much higher than what we pay currently! A pound of bacon would be about $6.73. A five-pound bag of flour would run about $5.30.

Many people did not have much money but were still paying for movies and listening to the radio. Hotel room rates jumped from $2.00 in 1920 to $5.60 for the same room just 10 years later. This was a huge risk for the hotel industry since a lot of the country was out of the job.

a loaf of bread: 7 cents. a dozen eggs: 34 cents. a quart of milk: 9 cents. a pound of steak: 26 cents.

$3,269.40 per year.

In total, the average entrance rate for common labor was $0.45 an hour, with a low of $0.15 and a high of $0.95. The study also looked at geographical differences, which showed that workers in the North made significantly more (average of $0.48 per hour) than those in the South ($0.34 per hour on average).

In the Roaring ’20s, milk was 35¢ or so per gallon.

In the 1920s, American lawmakers sought to improve working conditions in their states. By 1925, fifteen states had passed minimum wage laws, including California at 16 cents an hour.