The total value of the purchase was $15 million‚ at an astounding rate of under three cents per acre. The people who lived in Louisiana were all given U.S. citizenship and the United States agreed to honor all agreements between the Spanish and the Native Americans that had been made while Spain had controlled the land. The treaty was unclear about an important detail‚ however. The borders of the territory were not defined; the treaty simply stated that the extent of the territory would not change
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The Louisiana Purchase is the doing of Thomas Jefferson acquiring the territory of Louisiana from France in 1803 for about $15‚000‚000 which is approximately $236 million ("Louisiana Purchase‚ 1803"). The payment for the land was given with two million dollars up front‚ eleven million dollars over the course of a twenty year loan‚ and a French debt of almost four million dollars was forgiven by the United States ("How the Louisiana Purchase"). Originally the only interest of the purchase was the
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When Louisiana was under Spanish Rule the US was able to negotiate a treaty that allowed US farmers to be able to use the waterways‚ specifically the Mississippi River‚ as a means of transporting crops and other goods. When the US decided to negotiate this same deal when Louisiana came under French rule again‚ the French offered the United States the option to purchase all of Louisiana. So‚ in 1803 the United States government purchased the 828‚000 square miles of land known as Louisiana from France
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The Louisiana Purchase With the opening of the 19th century‚ new opportunities emerged for the new Republic of the United States and her peoples. Newly independent‚ the Americans were eager to expand the country’s boundaries. The country was surrounded by colonial nations and native tribes‚ very much different from their style of republic. The Louisiana Purchase was the most important land acquisition in the history of the United States‚ as it led to exploration‚ international incidents‚ and America’s
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The Louisiana Purchase was the greatest land purchase in US History. It nearly doubled the Nation’s size and it would bring much wealth to the nation. For example‚ in time gold would be discovered in the west and farming would be used on the land. This territory had been owned by different nations as a result of the French Indian war. However‚ in the end‚ it was sold to the US by the French. Jefferson had a plan for this land‚ although not everyone agreed with him buying the land. The treaty was
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The Louisiana Purchase posed several significant moral dilemmas for President Thomas Jefferson‚ among these were political reality and strict constructionism. When Jefferson got offered the Louisiana territory from Napoleon he knew it was a great opportunity for the United States. It would double up the size of the United States and he would the ability to use the Mississippi River. He understood by expanding the United States would be very significant for the United States. But Jefferson did not
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The Purchase of the Louisiana territory from France for 15 million dollars by today’s standards was clearly a great investment‚ but at its time it touched off a political firestorm of disagreement between both Thomas Jefferson’s Republican party and Federalists. The Republicans favored a system that provided constitutionally limited central government leaving the remainder to the states to control. In Jefferson’s view‚ anything that was written in the constitution was the responsibility of the
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The Louisiana Territory In the 1800s‚ this was the nation’s first opportunity to expand their territory. At this time‚ America was very vast. One of the reasons they wanted this land was that they wanted possession of the port city of New Orleans‚ near the mouth of the Mississippi River. This river was very desirable‚ because the farmers depended on freely moving their crops along the river. It was everything to them. Florida After President Thomas Jefferson has acquired Louisiana through diplomacy
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Louisiana Purchase On April 30‚ 1803 the nation of France sold 828‚000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River to the young United States of America in a treaty commonly known as the Louisiana Purchase. President Thomas Jefferson‚ in one of his greatest achievements‚ more than doubled the size of the United States at a time when the young nation’s population growth was beginning to quicken. The Louisiana Purchase was an incredible deal for the United States‚ the final cost totaling less
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Jefferson Goes Against His Own Philosophy: Louisiana Purchase The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828‚000 square miles of France’s claim to the territory of Louisiana. The Louisiana territory encompassed all or part of 15 current U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. At the time‚ the purchase faced domestic opposition because it was thought to be unconstitutional. Although Thomas Jefferson agreed that the U.S. Constitution did not contain
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