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https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/louisiana-purchase

http://shelledy.mesa.k12.co.us/staff/computerlab/Western_CO_History_Louisiana_Purchase.html

http://thomasjeffersondevelopment.weebly.com/the-louisiana-purchase.html

http://thomasjeffersondevelopment.weebly.com/the-louisiana-purchase.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3Ox6vGteek&list=PL5qS5kVp8e3o5UPTxkynidqqfWHhBvgeL

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-France had just re-taken control over the land

-The US nearly went to war over Louisiana

-The US never asked for all of Louisiana

-Many Americans opposed the Louisiana purchase

-Napoleon's brother tried to talk him out of it

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The United States bought 828,000 square miles of land from France in 1803. The French controlled this region from 1699 until 1762 when it became Spanish property because France gave it to Spain as a present, since they were allies. But under Napoleon Bonaparte, France revived the aspirations to build an empire in North America so the territory was taken back in 1800. However, those big plans were not meant to be because Napoleon needed to concentrate on preparations for war with the British Empire and so the land was sold to the United States. The price was 15 million dollars.

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Lewis and Clark were sent on an expedition to discover the land.

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Jefferson and Napoleon signing the treaty for the land

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Map of the Louisiana Territory included in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803

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April 30, 1803

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From The Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, and Louisiana to Montana.

The purchased territory included the whole of today’s Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, parts of Minnesota and Louisiana west of Mississippi River, including New Orleans, big parts of North and northeastern New Mexico, South Dakota, northern Texas, some parts of Wyoming, Montana, and Colorado as well as portions of Canadian provinces Alberta and Saskatchewan.