WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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he wanted to use that land to build factories
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he thought this purchase would make him a better president
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he bought it because Napoleon needed money and they were friends
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he wanted more farmland for the US
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Detailed explanation-1: -When France offered to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803, Jefferson wanted to seize the opportunity to double the size of the nation and to provide future generations with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of new farmland.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.