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WorksheetsUnit 2 Topic 1: LA Purchase
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What crop did Napoleon plan to grow in Louisiana to support France's sugar growing colony in the Carribean (St. Domingue)?
Corn
Wheat
Cotton
Indigo
How did Jefferson feel about France taking over Louisiana?
Friendly and Compassionate
Angry and Anxious
Indifferent and Content
Happy and Content
Who ceded Louisiana to France?
Spain
The United States
England
Italy
In what year did the Louisiana Purchase occur?
1800
1799
1803
1812
Who led the slave uprising in Saint Domingue (Haiti)?
Touissaint L'Ouverture
Charbonneau
Zebulon Pike
Merriweather Lewis
How much did the U.S. pay France for the Louisiana Territory?
$20 million
$15 million
$10 million
$5 million
How much were Livingston and Monroe allowed to spend to by President Jefferson?
$15 million
$ 2 million
$6 million
$10 million
What founding document did Rep. Griswold claim the Louisiana Purchase violated?
The Constitution
The Declaration of Independence
Common Sense
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
Which of the following is a geographic advantage of the United States purchasing the Louisiana Territory?
Owning the Louisiana Territory would allow the United States to attack British holdings in Canada.
Owning the Louisiana Territory would fulfill the United States' Manifest Destiny.
The Mississippi River is a major trade route.
The Port of New Orleans trades over $1 million in goods each year.
Why did Napoleon decide to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States? Select all that apply.
He needed money for his impending war with Spain.
He lost St. Domingue in the Slave Revolt, so he no longer needed Louisiana to provide goods for St. Domingue anymore.
Louisiana was too expensive to protect because it was such a small amount of land.
He needed money to pay Spain for his purchase of Louisiana from them.
