MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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commercial fishing
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it was the Catholic headquarters
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it was a large city
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was the center of trade along the Mississippi River
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Detailed explanation-1: -New Orleans is located at the mouth of the Mississippi River. In 1800, the river was the main highway of trade and commerce for the United States. Even when Spain had control of New Orleans, the Spanish allowed the U.S. to use the port. This was called the right to deposit.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Why were New Orleans and the Mississippi River important to settler in the West? The New Orleans was very important for importing and exporting goods; Mississippi River was a major transportation for settlers and good to ship items east.
Detailed explanation-4: -As the United States spread across the Appalachians, the Mississippi River became an increasingly important conduit for the produce of America’s West (which at that time referred to the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi).
Detailed explanation-5: -The purchase 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.