LA Purchase Quiz Review

What year was the Louisiana Purchase?

• 1876

• 1902

• 1803

• 1799

What type of person did the Sabine Strip attract? Why?

• Spanish speakers: They wanted to live where everyone was Catholic

• Outlaws: there was no law in this land

• Women: they had the right to vote here

Why did plantation owners place the heads of the leaders of The Great Uprising of 1811 along the Mississippi River?

• to show other slaves what will happen if they revolt

• to warn other slaves to not fight back

• to scare other slaves against uprising

• all of the above

Which is a possible reason so many people in the Louisiana Territory were happy to become American?

• they had so many more freedoms in America

• women had the right to vote

• all slaves were freed

In the early 1800s, the United States wanted to purchase territory in Louisiana from France because Louisiana

• contained the most productive factories in North America.

• was an important naval base that protected the Gulf Coast.

• controlled the main transportation route to the interior of North America.

• was an important link in the transatlantic slave trade.

Why did Napoleon decide to sell Louisiana to the United States?

• France lost its soldiers to a yellow fever epidemic and no longer needed Louisiana to grow sugar cane

• France lost Haiti in a slave revolt and no longer needed Louisiana to grow wheat

• Spain gave Louisiana to France because they owed France $15 million

• France owed America $25 million so they gave the US Louisiana

What 2 explorers mapped the land from the Louisiana Purchase?

• Joliet and Marquette

• Cotrez and Clark

• Lewis and Clark

• Claiborne and Wilkinson

Why did New Orleans have a large number of free people of color enter at this time?

• Haiti had a slave revolt and a large number of now free people came to Louisiana

• Cuba had a yellow fever epidemic and free people of color left too escape it

• Puerto Rico had a hurricane and free people of color needed a safe place to go

• Hawaii had a tsunami and free people of color were now free

America gave France _____________ for the Louisiana Purchase, which averaged out to _____ per acre?

• $25 million; 3 cents

• $18 million; 4 cents

• $19 million; 2 cents

• $15 million; 4 cents

During the Louisiana Purchase, ______ was the President of the United States and _____ was the leader of France?

• Thomas Jefferson; Napoleon

• Napoleon; Thomas Jefferson

• Aaron Burr; Napoleon

• Thomas Jefferson; Aaron Burr