MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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Question
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For control of the Mississippi ports
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To spy on the Spanish
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To control Haiti
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For gold and silver
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Original Goal: Buying New Orleans To him, New Orleans was key: Whoever owned it would be America’s natural enemy because that nation would control the channel through which produce from more than a third of the United States had to pass.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why was control of the Mississippi River important to the United States? Western farmers relied heavily on the Mississippi River to transport their wheat and corn. Spain control the New Orleans Port which was vital in the transportation of goods.
Detailed explanation-3: -New Orleans was a port city with stores of supplies that could be seized. Control of the Mississippi River would have given the British the upper hand in the war. They would have controlled waterways throughout the Louisiana Territory as well as the Port of New Orleans and access to the Gulf of Mexico.
Detailed explanation-4: -New Orleans was already important for shipping agricultural goods to and from the areas of the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains. Pinckney’s Treaty, signed with Spain on October 27, 1795, gave American merchants “right of deposit” in New Orleans, granting them use of the port to store goods for export.