Domestic Opposition
The purchase of Louisiana would not have happened without a domestic opposition.
Jefferson’s philosophy was in question about his strict way of the constitution.
Many people believed that President Jefferson was being dishonest by doing something he surly would have disagreed with the first American secretary of treasury, Alexander Hamilton.
The Federalists strongly went against the purchase because they believed it was unconstitutional.
They were concerned that the United States paid a huge amount of money just to declare war on Spain.
The Federalists also feared that the new citizens of the west would threaten the political power of the eastern states.
There was concern that the more slave holding states created out of the new territory would increase the irritation between the north and the south.
A group of Federalists led by Massachusetts’s Senator Timothy Pickering who planed to separate the north and the south.
Vice President Arron Burr was offered to control the northern group.
Burr’s friendship with Alexander Hamilton had worsened.
There anger between them ended in Hamilton’s death in a fight in the year 1804.