MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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The money helped prevent France form starting a war with the United States.
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The money paid France back for their help in the American Revolution.
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Americans wanted to help France in their war against the British.
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Americans wanted to expand settlement and trade in the west.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which statement best explains why the United States was interested in paying France for Louisiana? The money helped prevent France form starting a war with the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -Acquisition of Louisiana was a long-term goal of President Thomas Jefferson, who was especially eager to gain control of the crucial Mississippi River port of New Orleans.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Louisiana Purchase has been described as the greatest real estate deal in history. In 1803 the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory–828, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River.