what past presidents wanted to buy greenland?
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In 1867, United States Secretary of State William H. Seward who had, that year, negotiated the Alaska Purchase from the Russian Empire, considered the idea of United States annexation of both Greenland and Iceland an idea "worthy of serious consideration".
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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.
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['Theodore Roosevelt (1901 – 1909)', 'William Howard Taft (1909 – 1913)', 'Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921 – 1923)', 'J. Calvin Coolidge (1923 – 1929)', 'Herbert Clark Hoover (1929 – 1933)', 'Dwight David Eisenhower (1953 – 1961)', 'Richard Milhous Nixon (1969 – 1974)', 'Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (']
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['George Washington (1789-1797)', 'William Henry Harrison (1841) ... ', 'Grover Cleveland (1885-1889 and 1893-1897) Image Source. ... ', 'Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) Image Source. ... ', 'James Monroe (1817-1825) Image Source. ... ', 'Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) Image Source. ... ', 'Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) Image Source. ... ', 'Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) Image Source. ... ']
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The Louisiana Purchase was a land purchase made by United States president, Thomas Jefferson, in 1803. He bought the Louisiana territory from France, which was being led by Napoleon Bonaparte at the time, for 15,000,000 USD.
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['Vice President. Thomas Jefferson. from Virginia. ( D-R )', 'Former. U.S. Senator. Aaron Burr. from New York. ( D-R )', 'President. John Adams. from Massachusetts. (Federalist)', 'Former. Minister to France. Charles C. Pinckney. from South Carolina. (Federalist)']
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Switzerland, Norway, Greece, Denmark (unless Greenland counts as a colony), I think Sweden, Luxembourg, are all relatively old nations that did not have colonies.
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The United States Presidents who are related to each other by direct descent are: John Adams and John Quincy Adams (father and son) William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison (grandfather and grandson)
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In response, President Jefferson sent future president James Monroe to Paris to aid Livingston in the New Orleans purchase talks. On April 11, 1803, the day before Monroe's arrival, Talleyrand asked a surprised Livingston what the United States would give for all of Louisiana Territory.
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['Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. ... ', 'Nelson Mandela. ... ', 'Martin Luther King Jr. ... ', 'Abraham Lincoln. ... ', 'George Washington. ... ', 'Napoleon Bonaparte. ... ', 'Franklin D. ... ', 'Winston Churchill.']
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['Greenland. In 2009 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark travelled to Greenland to give it self-rule. ... ', 'Somaliland. In 1960, former British Somaliland became independent for five days before joining the former Italian Somaliland to create the Somali Republic. ... ', 'Barotseland. ... ', 'Transnistria. ... ', 'Moskitia. ... ', 'Isle of Man. ... ', 'Lakotah. ... ', 'Tibet.']
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Leading the opposition to the treaty were two future presidents: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. At the time, Jefferson was in between political positions: he had just completed a term as Washington's secretary of state from 1789 to 1793 and had not yet become John Adams' vice president.
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition began in 1804, when President Thomas Jefferson tasked Meriwether Lewis with exploring lands west of the Mississippi River that comprised the Louisiana Purchase. Lewis chose William Clark as his co-leader for the mission.
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The Presidents Race has featured likenesses of seven former Presidents of the United States, four of whom are found on Mount Rushmore: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt, plus William Howard Taft (introduced in 2013 and retired after the 2016 season), Calvin Coolidge (who raced ...
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Fearing being pursued by the rival group they sent word back home that the island was actually ice covered and inhabitable. They further added that there was another island further which was green and fit for human settlement. That is how the icy island was named Greenland and the green island called Iceland.
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The United States preferred to purchase and believed that doing so was for Denmark, as it would prevent criticism of American bases on Danish soil and save Denmark the cost of supporting Greenland. The American told the Dane that a sale "would be the most clean-cut and satisfactory".
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Building the Panama Canal, 1903–1914 President Theodore Roosevelt oversaw the realization of a long-term United States goal—a trans-isthmian canal. Throughout the 1800s, American and British leaders and businessmen wanted to ship goods quickly and cheaply between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.