THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
THOMAS JEFFERSONS PRESIDENCY LOUISIANA PURCHASE LEWIS CLARK AND MORE
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France promised to help the US fight Spain
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the US offered France more money than they wanted for the land
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the US needed money & France paid them to take the land
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France no longer wanted the land & the US wanted it
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: France did not simply stop needing the Louisiana territory. Instead, they needed money more than that particular piece of land. France regained control of the territory just after Napoleon Bonaparte came into power.
Detailed explanation-2: -It is believed that the failure of France to put down a slave revolution in Haiti, the impending war with Great Britain and probable Royal Navy blockade of France, and financial difficulties may all have prompted Napoleon to offer Louisiana for sale to the United States.
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: -But France’s ruler at the time, Napoleon Bonaparte, was losing interest in establishing a North American empire and needed funds to fight the British, so he directed his emissaries to offer not just New Orleans but all of the Louisiana Territory to the Americans.