Louisiana Purchase

The port of New Orleans helped the United States economically

• because of importing and exporting of goods on the Mississippi River

• the port did not allow goods to go out of it.

• no other port could ship internationally

• because it was the only port that could ship to Enland.

How did Pickney's Treary help the U.S. economy?

• cleared up boundary issues

• gave Louisiana to France

• the Louisiana Territory sale price

• it gave access to the Mississippi River and New Orleans

In the late 1700's what natural boundary is runs between the Spanish and American lands?

• Mississippi River

• Great Plains

• Appalachian Mountains

• Red River

The United States purchased the Louisiana territory from?

• Spain

• England

• Cuba

• France

When Louisiana was purchased who was the president

• James Monroe

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

What made Napoleon Bonaparte rise to power?

• French Revolution

• War of 1812

• Louisiana Purchase

• Treaty of San Ildefonso

The leader of the French government when the U.S. bought Louisiana was

• Toussaint L'Ouverture

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Louis XVI

• Jean Lafitte

Spain controlled the Mississippi River at the port of New Orleans in the late 1700's.

• True

• False

France decided to sell Louisiana to the United States

• France lost interest in Louisiana

• Louisiana did not help France during the Revolution

• because Napoleon lost at Saint-Domingue so Louisiana was useless to France.

• French with its new government no longer wanted a colonial empire

What happened in 1803?

• Father Antonio Sedella returned to Spain

• Battle of New Orleans

• Louisiana Purchase

• Louisiana became a state