Louisiana Purchase

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1. Louisiana Purchase
2. Background InformationIn 1763, at the end of
3. Negotiations1802 - Spanish authorities revoked a U.S.-Spanish
4. ResultThe treaty was dated April 30 and
5. AftermathThe acquisition of the Louisiana Territory for
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Background InformationIn 1763, at the end of the French and Indian wars, France lost all of its possessions in North America removing hopes of a colonial empire.In 1801, Spain signed a

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Слайд 1Louisiana Purchase

Слайд 2Background Information
In 1763, at the end of the French and

Indian wars, France lost all of its possessions in North

America removing hopes of a colonial empire.
In 1801, Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return Louisiana Territory to France.
Since the late 1780s, Americans had been moving westward into the Ohio River and Tennessee River valleys, and they were highly dependent on free access to the Mississippi River and the strategic port of New Orleans.
U.S. officials feared that France, under the leadership of Napoleon Bonaparte, would soon seek to dominate the Mississippi River and access to the Gulf of Mexico.

Background InformationIn 1763, at the end of the French and Indian wars, France lost all of its

Слайд 3Negotiations
1802 - Spanish authorities revoked a U.S.-Spanish treaty that granted

Americans the right to store goods in New Orleans.
1803 -

Jefferson sent James Monroe to Paris to aid Livingston in the New Orleans purchase talks.
France offers Louisiana for sale to the United States.

WHY?

the failure to put down a slave revolution in Haiti
the impending war with Great Britain
probable British naval blockade of France
financial difficulties

Negotiations1802 - Spanish authorities revoked a U.S.-Spanish treaty that granted Americans the right to store goods in

Слайд 4Result
The treaty was dated April 30 and signed on May

2.
US agreed to pay $11,250,000 and assume claims of American

citizens against France in the amount of $3,750,000.
In exchange, the United States acquired the vast domain of Louisiana Territory, some 828,000 square miles of land.

ResultThe treaty was dated April 30 and signed on May 2.US agreed to pay $11,250,000 and assume

Слайд 5Aftermath
The acquisition of the Louisiana Territory for the bargain price

of less than three cents an acre was among Jefferson’s

most notable achievements as president.
American expansion westward into the new lands began immediately, and in 1804 a territorial government was established.
On April 30, 1812, exactly nine years after the Louisiana Purchase agreement was made, the first state to be carved from the territory–Louisiana–was admitted into the Union as the 18th U.S. state.