MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Because he wanted control of the new Orleans port
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Because it was cheap
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They needed it
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There was overcrowding in the colonies
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jefferson’s men were in Paris because he wanted to buy the port of 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: -In 1800 Spain had transferred the Louisiana Territory to France, whose Emperor Napoleon held ambitions for establishing a French colonial empire in North America. President Thomas Jefferson worried that French control of the Mississippi River might close off that vital transportation route to the American West.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.