Louisiana Purchase

In 1800 Napoleon Bonaparte controlled

• Great Britain

• Spain

• Germany

• France

Who was Toussaint Louverture?

• a former slave who became leader of St. Domingue after a slave revolt

• the king of France

• the US ambassador to France

• the Spanish official who secretly traded Louisiana to France

US leaders were concerned about French ownership of Louisiana because

• they thought that the British had the right to own and occupy Louisiana

• they had already made an agreement to buy Louisiana from the Spanish

• they feared that the French would persuade Louisiana Indian tribes to attack the Americans

• it could block future US expansion westward and interfere with trade along the Mississippi River

The US bought Louisiana from France in 1803 at the cost of

• $1 million

• $15 million

• $10 million

• $100 million

The Louisiana Purchase

• did not occur until Congress passed an amendment approving it

• doubled the size of the US

• offered the US an opportunity to expand its commercial and manufacturing industries

• tripled the size of the US

What president arranged the Louisiana Purchase?

• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington 
• Andrew Jackson
• William Henry Harrison

The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from what country?

• Great Britain
• France
• Russia
• Spain

Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States so that he could pay for a war against

• France
• Great Britain 
• Spain
• Russia

Why did the Americans want the Louisiana territory?

• For control of the Mississippi ports
• To spy on the Spanish
• To control Haiti
• For gold and silver

When did the United States of America purchase the territory of Louisiana?

• 1703
• 1903
• 1803
• 1813