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This 3 page paper discusses the Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled the size of the United States peacefully. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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double in size with the addition of this new territory. This paper discusses how the purchase influenced politics and economic development, its impact on Native Americans and others in the
region; and how it relates to the doctrine of Manifest Destiny. Influence of the Louisiana Purchase on Politics and Economics Thomas Jefferson decided to try and purchase Louisiana because of
the threat from France. France gave up its possessions in North America at the close of the French and Indian War, and in 1762, transferred "New Orleans and Louisiana west
of the Mississippi" to Spain (Wilson). They also ceded "French territories east of the Mississippi, including Canada," to Britain (Wilson). But now Napoleon Bonaparte was in power, and he wanted
to "restore Frances presence on the [North American] continent" (Wilson). France at the time was an extremely powerful nation and a formidable enemy, and a French presence in New
Orleans made the entire nation "uneasy" (Wilson). The presence of Spain was "not so provocative" because Spain was in a "feeble state" (Wilson). "Jeffersons vision of obtaining territory from Spain
was altered by the prospect of having the much more powerful France of Napoleon Bonaparte as a next-door neighbor" (Wilson). The crisis came in October 1802 when King Charles IV
of Spain "signed a decree transferring the territory to France and the Spanish agent in New Orleans, acting on orders from the Spanish court, revoked Americans access to the ports
warehouses" (Wilson). Americans were outraged, and while Jefferson and James Madison, who was Secretary of State, tried to work out things diplomatically, some factions advocated war (Wilson). Jefferson realized that
he had to people that he was doing something besides negotiating, so he sent James Monroe to Paris to negotiate to obtain "land east of the Mississippi. Monroes instructions, drawn
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