A history of the events surrounding the United States' purchase of the Louisiana Territory from Napoleon during Thomas Jefferson's administration

Examines the personalities and events that contributed to America's acquisition of the Louisiana territory and discusses its economic and political impact on the nation

An account of the events leading to the United States' purchase of a huge tract of land from France in 1803.

Recounts how explorers discovered the Mississippi region and discusses the political, economic, and social factors that led to the Louisiana Purchase.

Comic strips tell the history of the Louisiana Purchase, describe frontier life, and look at the individuals involved in creating the Louisiana Purchase

Product Description: A thorough volume on the Louisiana purchase.

Discusses the three treaties that tripled the land holdings of the United States during the nineteenth century: the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the Guadalupe-Hidalgo treaty in 1848, and the Alaska Purchase in 1867.

Illuminates the many issues surrounding the purchase of the Louisiana Territory and the state of America at the time, with the help of more than sixty reproductions of art from the period, a cast of characters, maps, a timeline, footnotes, and more.

Describes the events leading up to the Louisiana Purchase and its impact on United States history

Product Description: Explains the events that led Napoleon Bonaparte to sell the Louisiana Territory and the difficulties that Thomas Jefferson had in making the purchase that doubled the size of the United States.

Examines the Louisiana Purchase, discussing the negotiation of the treaty with France, the formation of Louisiana, taking possession of the land, and the exploration, growth, and settlement of the territory. (view table of contents)

Explains the events that led Napoleon Bonaparte to sell the Louisiana Territory and the difficulties that Thomas Jefferson had in making the purchase that doubled the size of the United States. (view table of contents)

Chronicles the historical background and political maneuvers that led to the Louisiana Purchase by President Thomas Jefferson in 1803

Discusses political and cultural changes that led to and occurred during the westward expansion of the United States in the 1800s.

Describes the origins of the Louisiana Territory and the reasons why the United States wanted to buy the land, explains why Napoleon decided to sell, and discusses the aims and adventures of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system--particularly with the Louisiana Purchase--squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of that gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests (such as the powerful land companies that speculated in new territories and the British textile interests) that beat down slavery's many opponents in the South itself (Native Americans, African Americans, Appalachian farmers, and conscientious opponents of slavery). He describes how slaveholders' cash crops (first tobacco, then cotton) sickened the soil and how the planters moved from one desolated tract to the next. Soon the dominant culture of the entire region--from Maryland to Florida, from Carolina to Texas--was that of owners and slaves producing staple crops for international markets. The earth itself was impoverished, in many places beyond redemption. None of this, Kennedy argues, was inevitable. He focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farmers on land they coveted, by the enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself. Jefferson emerges as a tragic figure in a tragic period. (view table of contents)

Looks at the Louisiana Purchase, the largest recorded real estate deal in history, in which the United States doubled its size in one day.

A history of the Louisiana Purchase takes readers through events that transpired throughout the United States and its territories as well as Great Britain, France, Spain, and Haiti, noting the political clashes of key figures and the purchase's impact on other nations. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

Explains the events surrounding the Louisiana Purchase, through which President Jefferson acquired enough land to make the United States one of the largest nations in the world.