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Manifest Destiny

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Manifest Destiny

The belief that it was the United States' right and duty to expand across North America

A region of land

Louisiana Purchase

A treaty giving Louisiana to the United States in exchange for $15 million

American farmers used the Mississippi River to ship their crops here

Napoleon, the King of France

This person had settlement plans in Louisiana

France and Great Britain were about to go to war and he could lose Louisiana

Napoleon decided to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States because

The United States paid $15 million for this territory

doubled the country's size

The Louisiana Purchase impacted the nation because it

Politicians in the East feared that they would

lose power in Congress when Louisiana turned into new states

Critics disliked the

$15 million price tag