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- Who did Thomas Jefferson send to ask the French leader, Napoleon to sell part of Louisiana, including New Orleans to the United States?
- What did Lewis and Clark name their expedition?
- Today, an acre of land averages about _____ per acre.
- True or False: With this land purchase, the U.S. became one of the largest countries in the world.
- True or False: The Louisiana Purchase was one of the largest land sales in the history of the United States.
- Who was the leader of France at the time of the purchase?
- Napoleon was fighting two wars. Where were these two wars?
- When did President Thomas Jefferson take the oath of office?
- How many new states did we acquire with the Louisiana Purchase?
- Who agreed to travel with Lewis and Clark and serve as a translator?
- Approximately how many square miles of land was included in the Louisiana Purchase?
- Who closed the port of New Orleans to western farmers, hoping to stop the United States from moving farther west past the Mississippi River?
- During the French and Indian War, France had given much of its land in North America to Spain to prevent the _____ from getting control of it.
- How do historians state James K. Polk might have influenced the start of the war?
- Who did we split the Oregon territory with?
- What was Polk's presidential campaign that made him popular?
- What were the two different sides of the Texas revolution?
- What did the United States gain in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
- When the British managed to cut off french shipping to the americas what happened
- How did the American Indians benefit from their middle position between the competing empires