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he was looking for a northwest passage through american ie. mississippi riverhe wanted peace with indiansnapolean didnt have military power necessary to control Louisiana
1. Reduced the size of military and lowered government expenses. 2. Louisiana purchase.
Here are four reasons why Thomas Jefferson supported the Louisiana purchase: 1. Gave the United States ownership of Florida 2. Allowed the United States to gain control of California 3. Gave United States control of the port of New Orleans 4. Removed the Spanish from North America
it was cheap and a good deal
US President Thomas Jefferson believed that by purchasing what became known as the Louisiana Purchase he would vastly increase the size of the US. He believed the cost was a good deal and it gave the US control of the City of New Orleans. This took any French threat based in New Orleans away, and prevented the British from taking New Orleans away from Napoleon.
There are two main reasons on why the federalist party purchased Louisiana territory. The main two reasons for doing this was because the tie they had with Britain and compromising with Napoleon.
It might be seen by the Coalition as providing aid and comfort to their enemies.
Thomas Jefferson was eager to buy the Louisiana Territory because of the seaport at New Orleans. The Mississippi River was very important at that time in 1803 because of the shipping industry.
The Louisiana Purchase was important for several reasons both American and European. It created more land owned by America as it expanded at the time to the Mississippi and helped feed support to the idea of Manifest Destiny. In Europe the Louisiana Purchase was important because it gave funds to Napolean to continue conquering Europe for the French.
The purpose of the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, also known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was to find a water or land path to the Pacific. Other reasons were to reinforce the American claims to the territory, to gather information about the natives in the territory, and to gather information on resources in the area.
The purpose of the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, also known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition, was to find a water or land path to the Pacific. Other reasons were to reinforce the American claims to the territory, to gather information about the natives in the territory, and to gather information on resources in the area.
The United States got Louisiana from theLouisiana Purchase of 1803 when Thomas Jefferson the Third President of the United States was in office, originally Jefferson only wanted to buy the port of New Orleans, but France under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte had lost their colony of Haiti and the one of the few reasons the French had held on to Louisiana was to supply Haiti. Another reason was, Louisiana being so far away from France Napoleon feared that he would not be able to defend it and he felt that it was better to have the Louisiana territory in American hands instead of the British. Also Napoleon Bonaparte at war with the superpowers of the the day Germany, Austrian Empire, Britain etc and he needed money to finance the war and he made the United States an offer they couldn't refuse asking only a few more million dollars than the Americans were offering for New Orleans alone. By making this deal Thomas Jefferson who supported the strict interpretation of the Constitution was sort of a hypocrite because he was against the elastic clause, even though he used it to obtain the Louisiana Purchase, for he feared if he waited for a Constitutional Amendment which allowed the government to acquire new lands Napoleon would no longer be interested.