FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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to raise money
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to cut his losses in America
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to punish the sugar growers in Saint Domingue
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to increase America’s power as a British rival
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Detailed explanation-1: -Napoleon Bonaparte sold the land because he needed money for the Great French War. The British had re-entered the war and France was losing the Haitian Revolution and could not defend Louisiana.
Detailed explanation-2: -The revolution in Santo Domingo led to Napoleon selling the Louisiana Territory. The Native Americans were allies of the British in the War of 1812. The Louisiana Territory was purchased under the presidential administration of Thomas Jefferson. The War of 1812 ended with the Treaty of Tecumseh.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some were concerned about the constitutionality of the treaty with France. Others feared the impact of the purchase on the political balance of power between slave and free states.
Detailed explanation-4: -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?