THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
THOMAS JEFFERSONS PRESIDENCY LOUISIANA PURCHASE LEWIS CLARK AND MORE
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President Jefferson was worried about the Louisiana Territory because American farmers needed access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans to ship their crops/goods
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Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States because he needed money to fight wars in Europe and because his army was defeated in the Haitian Revolution
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The United States paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase
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The Louisiana Purchase occurred after Jefferson sent the American navy to blockade the port of New Orleans
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. It doubled the size of the United States. Was this answer helpful?
Detailed explanation-2: -What was the impact of the Louisiana Purchase? The Louisiana Purchase eventually 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-3: -Spain lost Florida to England and demanded remuneration from France. The French ceded Louisiana as compensation, and Oklahoma came under Spanish rule in 1763. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte of France and King Charles of Spain signed the Treaty of San Ildefonso. It quietly returned the entire region of Louisiana to France.