Louisiana Purchase-Revised

Key ideas of the Louisiana Purchase

1. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S. 2. U.S. now controlled the Mississippi River. 3. Gained control of the port city of New Orleans.

port city

A city on an ocean large lake or river with big docks bouys and the equipment need to load and unload cargo

Haiti

A slave revolt in _______ and an impending war with Britain, however, led France to abandon these plans and sell the entire territory to the United States,

Manifest Destiny

Belief that the US was destined by God to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

The state of Louisiana

Louisiana becomes the 18th state in the Union (USA) in 1812.

New Orleans

Napoleon rejected America's proposal to purchase New Orleans; choosing instead to offer the entirety of France's North American possessions as the Louisiana Purchase

Napoleon Bonaparte

Overthrew French Directory in 1799 and became emperor of the France in 1804. He sold Louisiana to the United States, in order to fund/pay for a war against the British.

Spain

Own most of America west of the Mississippi River before trading it to France.

15 million dollars

The Louisiana Purchase cost America

Rocky Mountains

The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the beginning of ___________________________________________.

Neutral Strip/Neutral Territory

The are between Louisiana and Texas, know as "No Man's Land". No, country had control of this area, therefore it was a lawless area during the 18001's.

The Louisiana Purchase

U.S. acquisition of the Louisiana territory from France in 1803 for $15 million, sold at a low price by Napoleon to fund his wars in Europe. The purchase secured American control of the Mississippi river and doubled the size of the nation.

Lewis and Clark

_______________________________________ led a government-sponsored expedition to explore the vast wilderness of the west soon after the signing of the Louisiana Purchase

Mississippi River

became the chief trading channel for goods shipped among the states it bordered

France

controlled the vast stretches of land west of the Mississippi, known as Louisiana, from 1699 until 1762

Thomas Jefferson

responsible for the acquiring the land in the Louisiana Purchase 3rd President of the United State Author of the Declaration of Independence

annexed /annexation

to take control of add a territory to an existing state or country

Sacagawea

was the young Shoshone navigator and translator for the Lewis and Clark expedition.