U.S. Expansion - Louisiana Territory

How justifiable was
U.S. Expansion in the

1800s?

Objective

Multiple Choice

True or False: When Thomas Jefferson was sworn in as president in 1801, he pledged [promised] to increase the size of the National Government. 

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Who secretly transfered the Louisiana Territory to France? 

• Netherlands

• Spain

• England

• Portugal

Multiple Choice

What problem did Thomas Jefferson run into when trying to buy part of the Louisiana Territory from France?

• the U.S. was broke as result of the Revolutionary War

• Congress wouldn't pass the purchase of land since it cost so much

• the Constitution doesn't say you can buy foreign land

Multiple Choice

How much money did the U.S. pay for the Louisiana Territory? 

• $15 million

• $50 million

• $75 million

• $100 million

Multiple Choice

Whose argument did Thomas Jefferson use when suggesting the U.S. Constitution implied that the he could purchase land with his power to make treaties? 

• John Adams

• George Washington

• James Madison

• Alexander Hamilton

#1
●Farmers west of the
Appalachians (mountains)
shipped their crops down the
Mississippi River to New
Orleans to tell their goods.

●Needed Port Access to ship
their good from New Orleans
(owned by French) to
market.

Background: Americans

“The Mississippi is to them
everything. It is the
Hudson, the Delaware, the
Potomac…”

- James Madison speaking of the farmers
west of the Appalachian mountains.

●France controlled Louisiana
Territory after acquiring it from
Spain.

#2
●Napoleon wanted to use the land to
grow crops for France’s colonies in
the Caribbean, especially Haiti.

●He planned to send thousands of
farmers and could shut down the
port of New Orleans to Americans.

Background: French

●1791 - 1804

●Led by Toussaint
L’Ouverture, Haitians
overthrew French troops in
Haiti and took control of
Haiti.

●Haiti declared independence

Haitian Revolution

#3
●Jefferson sent James
Monroe to purchase New
Orleans for $7.5 million.

●Napoleon, having lost Haiti,
offered to sell the U.S. all of
the territory for $15 million.

●Cost per acre = .02/.03 cents

Thomas Jefferson

Three Arguments:

●(1) Eastern States feared
addition of new states,
weakening their power in
Congress.

●(2) $15 Million was too much
money

●(3) Unconstitutional - Jefferson
didn’t have the right under the
Constitution to buy the land.

Louisiana Purchase

On April 30, 1803
the Senate ratified
the Louisiana
Purchase Treaty.

Thomas Jefferson

Alexander Hamilton

Multiple Choice

Who coined - or first used - the term "manifest destiny" ?

• John Adams

• John O'Sullivan

• James Monroe

• Thomas Jefferson

Multiple Choice

the belief that it was America’s “divine” right and duty to spread across the North American continent.

• annex

• justifiable

• divine

• manifest destiny

Multiple Select

Manifest Destiny took many forms and could include... [Select ALL that Apply]

• treaties

• settlements

• gambling

• wars

Multiple Choice

What city and river did farmers west of the Appalachians (mountains) depend on for shipping their crops back east?

• The Mississippi River & Detroit

• The Mississippi River & Kansas City

• The Mississippi River & New Orleans

• The Ohio River & New Orleans

Multiple Select

Which of the following WAS an argument against completing the Louisiana Purchase in 1803? [Select ALL that Apply]

• Eastern States feared addition of new states, weakening their power in Congress.

• $15 Million was too much money

• The Louisiana Purchase was unconstitutional

• Western States feared addition of new states, weakening their power in Congress.

Multiple Choice

What problem did Thomas Jefferson run into when trying to buy part of the Louisiana Territory from France?

• the U.S. was broke as result of the Revolutionary War

• the Constitution doesn't say you can buy foreign land

• Congress wouldn't pass the purchase of land since it cost so much

• he faced opposition in the House of Representatives

Multiple Choice

U.S. purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, doubling the size of the U.S. and giving the U.S. full control of the Mississippi River

• Oregon Territory

• Louisiana Purchase (1803)

• Texas War for Independence

• Mexican-American War