Louisiana Purchase
Napoleon's American sale
The Louisiana Purchase was the 1803 acquisition of French territory by the United States, roughly doubling the nation's size.
President Thomas Jefferson bought approximately 828,000 square miles stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains for about $15 million.
The term now refers to this transaction or the territory itself: The Lewis and Clark expedition explored the Louisiana Purchase.
Longest North American watercourse
- New OrleansLouisiana's largest city
- MissouriMidwestern state, major river
- ArkansasSouthern state, capital Little Rock
- IowaGreat Plains farming state
Nebraska · Oklahoma · Kansas · Colorado · Wyoming · Montana · Dakotas · Minnesota
Toward the sunset
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
- doublingMultiplying by two
- territorial growthGaining new land
- continentalOf a continent
acquisition · land acquisition · national boundaries · exploration · Lewis and Clark · Sacagawea · frontier · settlers
Third American president
- MonroeFifth American president
- LivingstonNew York founding father
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
1803 · diplomacy · cession · agreement · Senate approval · signing · Paris · executive power
French imperial family name
- FranceWestern European republic
- emperorMale ruler of empire
- saleExchange for payment
- treasuryStored organizational funds
Santo Domingo · Haiti · Caribbean · war debt · colonial empire · Talleyrand · European wars
Condition of being sovereign
- American historyRecord of the nation
- territorial governanceAdministration of a region
- Missouri Compromise1820 slavery boundary legislation
- national identityShared sense of nationhood
agricultural expansion · economic development · land surveys · public domain · homesteading · western migration · cultural diversity · Creole
Mississippi River
Longest North American watercourse
- New OrleansLouisiana's largest city
- MissouriMidwestern state, major river
- ArkansasSouthern state, capital Little Rock
Iowa · Nebraska · Oklahoma · Kansas · Colorado · Wyoming · Montana · Dakotas · Minnesota · Gulf of Mexico
westward
Toward the sunset
- manifest destinyObvious, inescapable fate
- doublingMultiplying by two
- territorial growthGaining new land
continental · acquisition · land acquisition · national boundaries · exploration · Lewis and Clark · Sacagawea · frontier · settlers · pioneers
Jefferson
Third American president
- MonroeFifth American president
- LivingstonNew York founding father
- negotiationDiscussion seeking mutual accord
ratification · 1803 · diplomacy · cession · agreement · Senate approval · signing · Paris · executive power
Bonaparte
French imperial family name
treasury · Santo Domingo · Haiti · Caribbean · war debt · colonial empire · Talleyrand · European wars
statehood
Condition of being sovereign
- American historyRecord of the nation
- territorial governanceAdministration of a region
- Missouri Compromise1820 slavery boundary legislation
national identity · agricultural expansion · economic development · land surveys · public domain · homesteading · western migration · cultural diversity · Creole · Cajun
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- Westward ExpansionOregon Trail, Lewis and Clark, covered wagons, pioneers, frontier
- 19th Century TreatiesTreaty of Ghent, Treaty of Berlin, Treaty of Frankfurt, Treaty of Nanking, Treaty of Shimonoseki
- Early RepublicGeorge Washington, Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Constitutional Convention
- JeffersonDeclaration of Independence, Monticello, University of Virginia, autobiography, inaugural address
- Jefferson EraThomas Jefferson, Democratic-Republicans, Monticello, Lewis and Clark, limited government
Louisiana Purchasewar of conquest
Military seizure of territory
conquest · Mexican-American War · invasion · seizure · Trail of Tears
purchase, purchasing, purchased, purchaser, purchases, Louisiana