The Louisiana Purchase

Sectional Tensions Gadsden Purchase: The Gadsden Purchase was a treaty made in 1853 by James Gadsden of South Carolina. Gadsden was appointed by Secretary of War Jefferson Davis to secure a chunk of Mexico for a railway route. He was able to negotiate land along the southern tips of current day Arizona and New Mexico, the northern border of Mexico, for $10 million from Spaniard Santa Anna. The land Gadsden had managed to obtain would have made making a southern railroad much more simple than cutting through more northern mountains.

France at this time did not consider it a great loss as it was expensive maintain and the Louisiana Territory was nothing more than a swamp that did not yield much benefit. When Napoleon Bonaparte seized control of France in 1799 he looked for world domination. One of the areas on his mind was to retake the Louisiana Territory from Spain. In a secret negotiation and deal with Spain, France re-acquired the Louisiana Territory in 1800. Relatively, the Louisiana Purchase included 828 million

Thomas Jefferson was able to make one of the largest recorded purchases of land, doubling the size of the US overnight. But how did he do it? He was a strongly anti-federalist, so it did not make sense for him to make such a federalist move. In 1803 the US purchased the Louisiana territory (an 800,000 square mile piece of land) from france for 15 million dollars.

Since 1762, Spain had owned the territory of Louisiana, which included 828,000 square miles. The territory made up all or part of fifteen modern U.S. states between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Though Napoleon Bonaparte wanted to turn New Orleans into France 's New commercial capitol, Jefferson was confident he would not be able to and persisted negotiations to purchase the land from France. In addition to making military preparations for a conflict in the Mississippi Valley, Jefferson sent James Monroe to join Robert Livingston in France to try to purchase New Orleans and West Florida for as much as $10 million. Failing that, they were to attempt to create a military alliance with England.

He was the first great painter to travel beyond the Mississippi to paint the Indians, and his Indian Gallery, staggering in its ambition and scope, is one of the wonders of the nineteenth century. Catlin was just seven years old in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark on a three-year expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. In 1830, Catlin made his initial pilgrimage to St. Louis to meet William Clark and learn from him all he could of the western lands he hoped to visit. He would have only a short time to accomplish his goal—to capture with canvas and paint the essence of Indian life and culture.

Also, The purchase was nearly canceled by Congress and only passed by a vote of 59-57. And, Thomas Jefferson wanted to buy the settlement of New Orleans from the French. It was a major seaport

As Americans set their course westward, their steadfast belief in manifest destiny was used as a means of justification for immoral actions taken against the Native Americans. Following the Louisiana Purchase, America gained 828,000 acres of land west of the Mississippi River. As a large populus of Americans abandoned the overcrowded cities from the east and west to unearth the riches it held. Native Americans who occupied that land, began to be pushed further away from the land cultivated by their ancestors. Fatal squirmishes frequently broke out between the Natives and settlers, President Andrew Jackson proposed a solution.

Introduction After independence from the British in the American Revolution, America continued using the Articles of Confederation in their government. With time, these proved to be inadequate, and the peoples representatives came together in an effort to create a newer, better form of government leading to the creation of a New Nation. In 1783, the American Revolution was concluded by the British and American negotiators in Paris, ‘granting independence to the United States while the Canadian provinces were reserved to the British Empire’. This was marked by the signing of the Paris Treaty, which ended a seven- year war between the French and Indians in North America.

French Louisiana: Economics and Development When Louisiana was first settled in 1699 by French immigrants, the colonies of the newly formed state were in an impoverished, unprofitable position. The colonies' destitution was due to the lack of resources provided by their new land and government, as well as France's political and economic negligence. However, after long years of poverty, the colony would one day turn a profit by trading their naturally occurring precious metals for paper money and land. Though the early settlers had been drawn to America with enticing tales of wealth and freedom, France was unable to finance it's settlements; the country's national bank had already been depleted by various European wars.

Louisiana is a state in the southern region of the United States enriched with dozens of different cultures. The state is strongly influenced by a mixture of 18th-century French, Spanish, Native American, Asian and African cultures. Native Americans first inhabited Louisiana in the early 16th-century. It wasn’t until 1528 that the first European explorers visited Louisiana. The first to visit Louisiana was the Spanish, who came on an expedition.

Page 1: The United States was growing and needed more landIn 1803, the United States purchased a large area of French land through the Louisiana Purchase. There had been rapid growth in the United States. Through the Northwest Territory, people had been expanding westward to plant crops and raise livestock beyond the Appalachian Mountains. People needed more land to expand as these lands became more popular, so the west was the obvious choice.

The land mass was first claimed by france, ceded to Spain in 1762, and then ceded back to France nearly 40 years later. History in unclear whether France first offered it to the U.S. or the U.S. showed interest in it to buy it from France. In a Note to U.S. minister Robert Livingston, Thomas jefferson, The Third President said “The day that France takes possession of New Orleans…we must marry ourselves

The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of the Louisiana territory by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million dollars and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million dollars which averages to less than three cents per acre. The Louisiana territory included land from fifteen present U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. The territory contained land that forms Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, portions of Minnesota, large portions of North Dakota; large portions of South Dakota, parts of New Mexico, the northern portion of Texas, the area of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. The Louisiana Purchase was smart move by the United States.

Fort Maurepas was the first European settlement in what would become the Southeastern United States, and was crucial to determining the fate of the region for centuries to come. After La Salle’s expedition down the Mississippi River, the French saw a vital need to find a colony near the mouth

Jefferson’s dilemma in the Louisiana Purchase In April of 1803 Thomas Jefferson was faced with many moral dilemmas in the process of buying the Louisiana territory. Though the price for the territory was beyond generous, Jefferson felt that by purchasing the territory he would be going against his beliefs that the constitution should be followed word for word. The constitution said nothing of the president having the power to purchase land from another government, or to use money of the states for the same purpose (“the moral dilemma”). Another problem was once the land was purchased, there was a fear that it could have been a waste since they had no way to know the layout of the land, and what it would be useful for.