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Land for Sale Napoleon the Louisiana Purchase
 
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In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte seized power in
France and began an ambitious campaign to a
French empire in Europe and in America.
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In 1801, he coerced Spain into signing a secret
treaty that returned Louisiana to France.
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A year later, he directed Spanish officials in
Louisiana to restrict American access to New
Orleans, violating the terms of Pickneys Treaty.
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Meanwhile, Napoleon planned an invasion to
restore French rule in Haiti a rich sugar island
seized in 1793 by rebellious black slaves led by
Toussaint LOuverture.
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Napoleons aggression prompted Jefferson to
question his partys pro-French foreign policy.
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The day that France takes possession of New
Orleans, President Jefferson warned, we must
marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
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Jefferson feared that the French might close the
Mississippi River to western farmers, threatening
his vision of an expanding yeoman republic.
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He instructed, Robert Livingston, the American
minister in Paris to negotiate the purchase of
New Orleans.
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Simultaneously, Jefferson sent James Monroe to
Britain to negotiate an alliance in case of war
with France.
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By 1802, the French invasion of Haiti was
faltering in the face of disease and determined
black resistance, a new war threatened in Europe,
and Napoleon feared an American invasion of
Louisiana.
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Acting with characteristic decisiveness, the
French ruler offered to sell not only New Orleans
but the entire territory of Louisiana for 15
million dollars.
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The Louisiana Purchase forced the president to
reconsider his strict interpretation of the
Constitution.
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Jefferson had always maintained that the national
government possessed only the powers expressly
delegated to it in the Constitution, but there
was no constitutional provision for adding new
territory.
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In this case, a pragmatic Jefferson accepted a
loose interpretation of the Constitution, using
the treaty-making powers authorized there to
complete the deal with France.
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A scientist as well as a statesman, Jefferson
wanted detailed information about the physical
features of the new territory, its plant and
animal life, and its Native peoples.
Species collected During the Lewis
Clark Expedition.
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In 1804, he sent his personal secretary,
Meriwether Lewis, to explore the region with
William Clark, an army officer.
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With the help of Indian guides, Lewis and Clark
and their party of American soldiers and
frontiersmen traveled up the Missouri river,
across the Rocky Mountains, and, venturing beyond
the bounds of the Louisiana Purchase, down the
Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean.
 
 
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After two years, they returned with the first
maps of the immense wilderness and vivid accounts
of its natural resources and inhabitants.
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