The Louisiana Purchase: A Global Context (Critical Moments in American History)

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In 1803, the USA purchased 828,000 square miles of land from France at a price of approximately three cents per acre, dramatically altering the young nation’s geography and its political future. President Thomas Jefferson had struggled for three years over the purchase, which many believed to be unconstitutional, all through which period the land changed hands between the French and the Spanish. In possibly the nation’s most formative development because the Revolutionary War, the deal secured the U.S. territory that would transform fifteen new states, sparked intense public argument concerning the American Frontier, and ensured Jefferson a complicated legacy in American history.

With special attention to the diplomatic and constitutional background of the purchase, The Louisiana Purchase examines the event within the context of the Atlantic world, including the have an effect on of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars in Europe, colonial revolutions within the Caribbean, and the westward expansion of the U.S. population. In five concise chapters bolstered by number one documents including treaties, letters, and first-hand observations, Robert D. Bush introduces students to the political history of this momentous land acquisition.


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