Louisiana Purchase Test Questions – Flashcards
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Said to be this persons greatest achievement
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President Thomas Jefferson
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The Louisiana Purchase stretched from the Mississippi River to the beginning of
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Rocky Mountains
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States included in the Louisiana Purchase
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Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
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States included in the Louisiana Purchase
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Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
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became the chief trading channel for goods shipped among the states it bordered
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Mississippi River
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controlled the vast stretches of land west of the Mississippi, known as Louisiana, from 1699 until 1762
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France
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wanted to consolidate his resources so that he could focus on conquering England. Believing he lacked the troops and materials to wage an effective war, the French general wished to sell Frances land to raise funds.
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Napoleon
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Back in the United States the treaty was approved by ____________ by a vote of twenty-four to seven.
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Congress
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The great French general Napoleon Bonaparte took back the land in ________
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1800
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France did not have a strong enough _______ to maintain control of lands so far away from home, separated by the Atlantic ocean.
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navy
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Napoleon wanted to consolidate his resources so that he could focus on conquering ____________.
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England
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Napoleon rejected Americas proposal to purchase __________, choosing instead to offer the entirety of Frances North American possessions as the Louisiana Purchase
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New Orleans
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____________ and William Clark led a government-sponsored expedition to explore the vast wilderness of the west soon after the signing of the Louisiana Purchase
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Meriwether Lewis
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The Louisiana Purchase cost America
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15 million dollars
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A slave revolt in _______ and an impending war with Britain, however, led France to abandon these plans and sell the entire territory to the United States,
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Haiti
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It was originally claimed by ______, but also claimed by the French, who established most of the colonists as part of New France
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Spain
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Following the ____________ and French defeat by Great Britain, Spain gained control of the territory west of the Mississippi River.
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Seven Years War
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_____________ and Robert R. Livingston traveled to Paris to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans in 1802.
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James Monroe
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Jefferson sent Livingston to Paris in 1801 after discovering the transfer of Louisiana from Spain to France under the _________________
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Third Treaty of San Ildefonso
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In January 1802, France sent ___________ to Saint-Domingue to re-establish slavery,
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General LeClerc
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France turned New Orleans over on December 20, 1803 at ____________
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The Cabildo
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a formal ceremony was conducted in _____________ to transfer ownership of the territory from France to the United States
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St. Louis
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Because the western boundary was contested at the time of the Purchase, President Jefferson immediately began to organize three missions to explore and map the new territory.
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Lewis and Clark Expedition, Red River Expedition, and the Pike Expedition
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The American government used $3 million in _______ as a down payment, and issued ______ for the balance to pay France for the purchase.
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gold, bonds
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The original handwritten proclamation signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, that informed the American public of the landmark deal of the Louisiana Purchase, was acquired in ___________________.
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1996 by Walter Scott Jr. of Omaha, Nebraska, who holds it in his private collection.
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was the acquisition by the United States of America in 1803 of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km2) of Frances claim to the territory of Louisiana
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The Louisiana Purchase
