Lewis and Clark Expedition

Thomas Jefferson was all of the below save one.

• Fourth President of the United States

• Primary draftsman of the U.S. Declaration of Independence

• First secretary of state

• Second vice president

Jefferson and the United States bought the Louisiana Purchase from this country.

• Spain

• Great Britain

• France

• Russia

Jefferson stabilized the U.S. economy and defeated pirates from North Africa during the Barbary War.

• True

• False

Jefferson asked this general, whose conquests in what has become Illinois and Indiana helped the United States win the Revolutionary War, to embark on such an expedition, but the general regrettably replied “that his own business affairs precluded his going.”

French botanist Andre Michaux was commissioned by Jefferson to embark on the journey to the Pacific Ocean, but he was deemed this and never finished the expedition.

When Spain openly finalized the secret deal it made with France for the Louisiana Purchase territory, it revoked America's access to this Southern city.

Napoleon Bonaparte decided to sell France's land holdings in North America to the United States for all the reasons below except one.

• Haitian slave rebellion

• the need for money

• the death of his soldiers because of the yellow fever

• he wanted to establish a friendly relationship with the United States

Jefferson was willing to offer up to this amount of money to France for New Orleans when Spain denied access to the city's warehouses.

• $15 million

• $10 million

• $2 million

• $25 million

In late April 1803, with the stroke of a pen and the exchange of just $15 million, the United States nearly doubled in size through the Louisiana Purchase. The final price, because of interest, was more than $27 million.

• True

• False

The territory known as the Louisiana Purchase contributed land to all or parts of how many future states?

• 15

• 25

• 13

• 10