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Louisiana Purchase - College Papers

Louisiana Purchase

Dontell Williams
1/10/10

Louisiana Purchase: Factual

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• By the terms of the 1763 Treaty of Fontainebleau, Louisiana west of the Mississippi was ceded to Spain, while the British received the eastern portion of the huge colony.
• When the United States won its independence from Great Britain in 1783, one of its major concerns was having a European power on its western boundary, and the need for unrestricted access to the Mississippi River
• American settlers pushed west, they found that the Appalachian Mountains provided a barrier to shipping goods eastward. The easiest way to ship produce was to build a flatboat and float down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to the port of ...

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itself of Louisiana, which was a drain on its financial resources.
• On October 1, 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, concluded the Treaty of San Ildefonso with Spain, which returned Louisiana to French ownership in exchange for a Spanish kingdom in Italy.
• Napoleon's ambitions in Louisiana involved the creation of a new empire centered on the Caribbean sugar trade
• Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, was disturbed by Napoleon's plans to re-establish French colonies in America. With the possession of New Orleans, Napoleon could close the Mississippi to U.S. commerce at any time. Jefferson authorized Robert R. Livingston, U.S. Minister to France, to negotiate for the purchase for up to $2 million of the City of New Orleans, portions of the east bank of the Mississippi, and free navigation of the river for U.S. commerce.
• An official transfer of Louisiana to French ownership had not yet taken place, and Napoleon's deal with the Spanish was ...

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Added: 3/10/2011 10:26:17 PM
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