Louisiana Purchase

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sold the US the Louisiana territory

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Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France

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area of the Louisiana purchase

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From the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains

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year of the Louisiana Purchase

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1803

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the purchase of the Louisiana Territory expanded the United States

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to the west

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cost of the Louisiana territory

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$15 million

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the president at the time of the Louisiana Purchase

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Thomas Jefferson

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importance of the port of New Orleans

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for trade along the Mississippi River

importing goods

exporting goods

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reason for the sale of Louisiana territory

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Napolean Bonaparte needed money to fund the wars he was fighting.

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they negotiated the purchase of the Louisiana territory on behalf of the president of the United States

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James Monroe and Robert Livingston