LOUISIANA PURCHASE

NEW ORLEANS

• Jefferson sent Livingston to paris in 1801 to purchase new orleans
• In 1802 Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours engaged in back-channel diplomacy with Napoleon on Jefferson's
• behalf during a visit to France, and originated the idea of the much larger Louisiana Purchase
• defuse potential conflict between the United States and Napoleon over North America
• Jefferson disliked the idea of purchasing Louisiana believed that a U.S. President did not have the authority

CONTINUING

• Jefferson was aware of the potential threat that France could be in that region
• Napoleon's foreign minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand opposed selling Louisiana
• Napoleon was faced with revolution in Saint-Domingue (present-day Republic of Haiti).
• Napoleon needed peace with Great Britain to take possession of Louisiana
• But in early 1803, war between France and Britain seemed unavoidable.

CONTINUING

• Without revenues from sugar colonies in the Caribbean, Louisiana had little value to him
• Napoleon told Treasury Minister François de Barbé-Marbois that he was considering selling everything
• just days before Monroe's arrival Barbé-Marbois offered Livingston all of Louisiana instead of just New Orleans
• at a price of $15 million on April 11, 1803
• So they agreed and signed the Louisiana Purchase Treaty on April 30, 1803.

CONTINUING

• On July 4, 1803, the treaty reached Washington.
• In 1822 the us incorporated the florida territory
• And so on.

IF THE PURCHASE DIDN'T HAPPEN

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• In 1803 Napoleon denied Monroe and Livingston in their attempted to buy New Oreleans
• A few months after Napoleon goes to war with Britain
• Meanwhile Jefferson gets an urge while the French empire is distracted to ceaseNew Oreleans
• In 1804 Jefferson after months of deliberation and planning sents troops out
• Meanwhile Napoleon short of money for his war decides to start selling bits and pieces

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• Of the territory to fund his project and thus small colonial outpost colonies
• Are created.
• In 1805 Napoleon loses the american front of the war and ultimately loses acreage
• Though still other european powers within the original territory reside
• As time goes on theirs rising tension between those outposts and the Americans

CIVIL WAR

• Who think that the land west is theirs to have, rising conflict and battles
• In 1860 America is divided on the issue of slavery and the issue of expansion
• Is brought into a savage civil war along side battles and conflict in the west
• By the europeans and americans. Leading to a crude first world war 1.
• As the mother countries supply their across the sea citizens with weapons