USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In this transaction with France, signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward.

Detailed explanation-3: -It’s believed that the failure of France to put down a slave revolution in Haiti, the impending war with Great Britain and probable British naval blockade of France – combined with French economic difficulties – may have prompted Napoleon to offer Louisiana for sale to the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -Subject to unfair treaties and genocidal and discriminatory policies, they paid the price for the United States’ westward expansion. By 1840, the U.S. had forced tens of thousands of Native Americans from their lands along the Trail of Tears. More than 5, 000 people died along the way.

Detailed explanation-5: -First, farmers could sell their crops in New Orleans. Second, in a single day, the size of the country doubled. Also, the new land was full of natural resources. These resources included water, animals, timber, minerals and, of course, the land itself.