According to most textbooks, Napoleon Boaparte offered the Louisiana Territory. As quick as a flash, Thomas Jefferson told Bonaparte that he will buy it.
The main reason the Louisiana territory was sold to the US was because the seller, France was broke following recent war expenses. The Louisiana Territory roughly encompassed 13 central and western states, from Louisiana to Montana.
The Louisiana Purchase refers to America buying Louisiana from France. This happened in 1803, during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
France sold a vast majority of its territorial claims in North America to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase included present-day states of Louisiana, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Minnesota, parts of Texas Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, N. and S. Dakota. It was valuable because the deal included the city of New Orleans. Also there was the Gadsden Purchase from Mexico. This was located on the US and Mexican border. In addition, later in the 19th century (1867) USA purchased what was later to become Alaska and was at the time known as Seward's Folly
Because Napoleon needed money to continue the war in Europe, the Louisiana Purchase was sold to the US for $15 million.
facilitation of American westward expansion.
The Louisiana Purchase (Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to America for 15 million dollars. It doubled the size of the U.S.)
He sold it too the United States of America
The Louisiana Territory cost 15 million dollars and was sold in 1803 by France to the United States of America.
Napoléon Bonaparte sold the Louisiana Purchase to the US.
Napoleon sold French Louisiana to the US in 1803 as the Louisiana Purchase.
Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, sold the Louisiana Territory to President Thomas Jefferson in the year 1803.
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Selling Louisiana to France gave Napoleon a path to attempt to rebuild France's empire in North America. Of course, his plan was unsuccessful.
The Louisiana Purchase in 1803 for $15 million.
France sold Louisiana to the United States in 1803. The sale was negotiated by French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and American diplomats Robert Livingston and James Monroe. The Louisiana Purchase effectively doubled the size of the United States and was a significant event in American history.
He no longer needed a base in North America. (apex)
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