Do you know anyone who has ever been to jail? Why did they go? Do you think that crime deserved the time they got?

Darius Clark Monroe served three years of a 5-year sentence at the Jim Ferguson Unit prison in Midway, Texas, for bank robbery. I think he served what time he needed in jail.

Explanation:

president thomas jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the louisiana purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an american presence in this territory before britain and other european powers

a. by accepting the election of president abraham lincoln in 1860 and convincing other southern states to do the same