THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
WAR OF 1812
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1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition begins
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1808 Congress bans the importance of slaves
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1812 war breaks out between the U.S. and Great Britain
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
Detailed explanation-2: -In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson sent to the Senate a treaty purchasing the Louisiana Territory from France. The Senate approved the treaty for ratification on October 20, 1803. The territory, which encompassed more than 800, 000 square miles of land, now makes up fifteen states stretching from Louisiana to Montana.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -In the Treaty of Fontainebleau, signed November 3, 1762, France ceded all the territory of colonial Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, along with New Orleans, to Spain.