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1. The United States offers to buy New Orleans from France 2. Haiti wins its independence from France 3. Napoleon offers to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States
Jefferson needed the New Orleans port for the people of the western frontier to transfer their products down the Mississippi River. Originally he offered to buy just New Orleans, but Napoleon offered all of the Louisiana Territory (in part to frustrate the designs of the British, who had taken Canada from France). The 1803 Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the US, and opened the way for westward expansion.
Louisiana became a state on April 30, 1812. It became the 18th state of the country.
Jefferson feared that Napoleon (the new leader of France after their revolution) would try to start an empire in Louisiana and take over the United States and also the rest of the world. Another reason is Napoleon had planned to close the port of New Orleans to American shipping. Spain secretly made a bribe with Napoleon to take Louisiana territory if France would leave the Spainiards alone and not attack them and take over their territory. Napolean made the deal, but did NOT plan to keep his end of it.
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1. The United States offers to buy New Orleans from France 2. Haiti wins its independence from France 3. Napoleon offers to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States
Napoleon Bonaparte sold New Orleans along with the Louisiana Territory to President Jefferson in the 1880's.
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No. Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from France in 1803 and that included New Orleans.
It was $15 million including New Orleans, which was relatively inexpensive considering the amount of land he was offering to Jefferson.
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The Road to Independence - 2007 was released on: USA: 4 July 2007 (New Orleans, Louisiana)
New Orleans is a city, and it can be found in Louisiana. New Orleans is Louisiana's largest city.
Actually, he sort of didn't "ask" for it; the American government sent an envoy to offer him money for New Orleans. Napoleon offered far more territory than the Americans were asking for, at a price that was only slightly higher than they had been willing to pay for New Orleans alone.