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	Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The purchase was an important moment in the presidency of Thomas Jefferson.
		On July 14, 1803 the treaty reached Washington D.C. The Louisiana territory was vast, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to Rupert's Land in the north, and from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west.
		Effective on October 1, 1804, the purchased territory was organized into the Orleans Territory (most of which became the state of Louisiana) and the District of Louisiana, which was temporarily under the control of the Governor and Judges of the Indiana Territory.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louisiana_Purchase (2238 words)

	Louisiana Purchase - LoveToKnow 1911
		LOUISIANA PURCHASE, a large portion of the area of the United States of America, purchased from the French Republic in 1803.
		Such is the accepted description of the W. boundary of the Louisiana Purchase - waiving Texas - thus retrospectively determined, except that that boundary ran with the crest of the Rocky Mountains N. of its intersection with the parallel of 42°.
		Thus were carved from the great domain of the Purchase Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Oklahoma in their entirety, and much the greatest part of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Louisiana_Purchase (1216 words)

	Louisiana Purchase - MSN Encarta
		Louisiana Purchase, vast region in North America purchased by the United States from France in 1803.
		The huge province of Louisiana was originally settled by the French in the early 18th century, but in 1762 it was ceded to Spain by a secret treaty.
		The French army in Santo Domingo was destroyed by yellow fever and the revolutionists, and a war with England appeared inevitable, threatening occupation of Louisiana by the British.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761564763 (362 words)

	Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial
		It was the largest and swiftest act of American expansion, and it forever and fundamentally transformed the flow of American history and the shape of the geographical, political, and cultural contours of the nation.
		The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States and brought with it new cultures, new citizens, and vast natural resources.
		As the Purchase literally reshaped America, it would transform the struggle over slavery, the nature of relations between Euro-Americans and Native Americans, the cultures and ethnicity of the American peoples, and the scope and complexity of the economy.
	louisianapurchase.umsl.edu (291 words)

	Louisiana Secretary of State/Museums/Old State Capitol/Louisiana Purchase - What IS?
		Debate over the purchase and over the addition of an "alien population" to the United States was intense with the New England states eager to condemn the acquisition of Louisiana and the frontier states of the South and West just as eager to defend it.
		By the single act of purchasing the Louisiana Territory, the United States of America doubled its size and greatly accelerated its march toward the Pacific coast.
		The Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition guaranteed the continuing westward march of the United States.
	www.sec.state.la.us /purchase/map.htm (928 words)

	Louisiana Purchase: Historical Perspectives, 1682-1815
		Louisiana's history as a colony, territory, and state in the fifteen years from 1800 to 1815 was characterized not only by diplomatic, political, legal, and cultural friction but also by compromise among the various elements of its diverse population.
		This action and the retrocession of Louisiana to France caused immediate consternation among the people of the West and led President Jefferson to instruct Robert R. Livingston, the American minister at Paris, to seek the purchase of a tract of land on the lower Mississippi to be used as a port.
		The Louisiana Purchase encompassed close to one-third of the present continental United States including all of the present-day states of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska, as well as parts of Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and, of course, Louisiana.
	www.lib.lsu.edu /special/purchase/history.html (11678 words)

	Louisiana Purchase: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		Louisiana Governor Newton Blanchard issued a proclamation in 1904 that reproduced Governor William C. Claiborne's 1803 proclamation to the citizens of Louisiana.
		The Louisiana Purchase: Legislative Timeline 1802-1807 explores the role of Congress in the Louisiana Purchase from 1802 to 1807, including ratification of the treaty, establishment of a territorial government, confrontation with Spain over boundary issues, and its limited role in the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
		A section on the West examines Jefferson’s role in the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Louisiana.html (637 words)

	Louisiana Purchase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Louisiana Territory was ceded to Spain from France in 1762, but by 1800 the land was reclaimed by France in the Treaty of Idelfonso.
		Immediately after the nation's flags were exchanged, Claiborne became the Governor of Louisiana and Wilkinson became its military commander.
		In March of 1804, another ceremony took place in St. Louis and control of the Mississippi was at last in the hands of the U.S. government.
	www.montpelier.org /history/louisiana_purchase.cfm (245 words)

	Louisiana Purchase. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The revelation in 1801 of the secret agreement of 1800, whereby Spain retroceded Louisiana to France, aroused uneasiness in the United States both because Napoleonic France was an aggressive power and because Western settlers depended on the Mississippi River for commerce.
		Jefferson’s scruples about the constitutionality of the purchase were overcome by his fears that Napoleon might change his mind (as intimated in reports from Livingston) and by the overwhelming public approval of the Louisiana Purchase (although there was some objection from Federalists, especially in New England).
		The Louisiana Purchase, extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mts.
	www.bartleby.com /65/lo/LouisianP.html (484 words)

	Common-place: Ask the Author: The Louisiana Purchase
		Then Monroe presided over the final negotiations for that Purchase, in which was inserted the fatal language assuring, in the interpretation of the Jeffersonian Congress, the rights to hold and to import slaves into the vast dominion included in the Louisiana Purchase.
		And, of course, there were costs in money incurred in the purchase of a territory from Napoleon, who did not own it, at a time in which his failed Haitian expedition demonstrated that he had not the means to wrest it away from Spain and hold it against a determined American administration.
		As new domains were acquired by purchases and wars from the Indian nations, from France, and from Spain, the preferences most affecting the allocation of that land were those of owners of large plantations worked by many slaves.
	www.common-place.org /vol-03/no-03/author (1315 words)

	Louisiana Purchase
		Napoleon Bonaparte (the future Emperor Napoleon I) envisioned a great French empire in the New World, and he hoped to use the Mississippi Valley as a food and trade center to supply the island of Hispaniola, which was to be the heart of this empire.
		Concerned about French intentions, President Thomas Jefferson had already sent James Monroe and Robert R. Livingston to Paris to negotiate the purchase of a tract of land on the lower Mississippi or, at least, a guarantee of free navigation on the river.
		Barry, James P., The Louisiana Purchase, April 1 803 (1973); Chidsey, Donald B., The Louisiana Purchase (1972); DeConde, Alexander, This Affair of Louisiana (1976); Lyon, Elijah Wilson, Louisiana in French Diplomacy (1934); Sprague, Marshall, So Vast So Beautiful a Land: Louisiana and the Purchase (1974); Whitaker, Arthur P., The Mississippi Question, 1795-1803 (1934; repr.
	gatewayno.com /history/LaPurchase.html (505 words)

	Today in History: October 20
		The agreement, which provided for the purchase of the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France at a price of less than three cents per acre, doubled the size of the country and paved the way for westward expansion beyond the Mississippi.
		The purchase of the Louisiana Territory and Lewis and Clark's expedition marked the beginning of a century of conquest.
		Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, as well as most of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Minnesota were carved from the original territory of Louisiana.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/oct20.html (735 words)

	The Louisiana Almanac-The Louisiana Purchase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of the French province of Louisiana by the United States in 1803.
		As a result of the purchase, the port of New Orleans and the entire Mississippi system were secured for American shippers, and the country was free to expand toward the Pacific Ocean.
		The purchase forced Jefferson to give a broad interpretation to the Constitution, which did not specifically grant authority for acquiring new territory.
	louisianahistory.ourfamily.com /page2.html (416 words)

	MILESTONE HISTORIC DOCUMENTS - THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE TREATY
		In one fell swoop the purchase of Louisiana ended the threat of war with France and opened up the land west of the Mississippi to settlement.
		y any measure the purchase of Louisiana was the most important action of JeffersonÃs two terms as president.
		Jefferson knew that acquiring the very heart of the American continent would prove to be the key to the future of the United States.
	www.earlyamerica.com /earlyamerica/milestones/louisiana (329 words)

	UL Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies: LPBS
		The Center for Louisiana Studies staff proudly presents its contribution to the commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase bicentennial.
		The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History is the best single source of information for anyone interested in the history of Louisiana the colony, the original Louisiana Purchase territory, and its acquisition by the United States.
		This project is dedicated to the memory of Glenn Conrad, director of the Center for Louisiana Studies since its inception in 1973 and general editor of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series in Louisiana History.
	cls.louisiana.edu /lpbs-series.shtml (315 words)

	The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial In Arkansas - History
		The initial point for all official surveys of the vast Louisiana Territory is located in a headwater swamp at the corners of what became Lee, Monroe, and Phillips counties in Arkansas.
		During the Arkansas Bicentennial Commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase in 2003, civic groups across the state will remember - through community events, museum exhibits, school programs, and many other activities - that Arkansas is where the journey began.
		"The Journey Began in Arkansas," the logo of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial of Arkansas, and "The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Committee of Arkansas" are marks of the Arkansas Secretary of State's Office.
	www.lapurchase.org /history.html (335 words)

	Louisiana Purchase
		Moreover, the United States wanted to possess the entire territory of Louisiana because so many American settlers and merchants were already in the region and because of its vital geographic position at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
		On November 30, 1803, Spain's representatives, Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transferred Louisiana to France's representative, Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat, in the Sala Capitular in the Cabildo.
		The cases arose over Myra Clark Gaines' claims to her father's estate, and although Clark won in the end, she expended the fortune that her second husband, General Edmund Pendleton Gaines, left her and died penniless in 1885, five years before the final lawsuit was decided in her favor.
	lsm.crt.state.la.us /cabildo/cab4.htm (1570 words)

	The Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial In Arkansas - The Journey Began in Arkansas
		President Thomas Jefferson purchased the vast territory of Louisiana from France in 1803, doubling the size of the United States.
		The people of Arkansas take great pride in their state's history as part of the Louisiana Purchase and the starting point for the surveyors who explored and mapped the frontier.
		The initial point of the survey is now Louisiana Purchase Historic State Park, where visitors can walk a convenient boardwalk through the swamp, experiencing the sights and sounds of the wilderness much as the original surveyors did.
	www.lapurchase.org (229 words)

	THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE
		The vast Louisiana Territory was purchased for 60 Million Francs or about $15,000,000.00 of which $11,250,000.00 was to be paid directly.
		The purchase of the Louisiana territory came about as a result of concern to secure free navigation of the Mississippi River.
		The Louisiana Purchase was by far the greatest achievement of his presidency.
	members.tripod.com /~jtlawson (319 words)

	Louisiana Purchase Timeline 1803
		The House of Representatives debates Spain's cession of Louisiana to France.
		The House of Representatives appropriates $2,000,000 for the purchase of Louisiana.
		The Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase treaty by a vote of 24 yeas and 7 nays.
	www.louisianapurchase2003.com /history/timeline/1803.htm (1211 words)

	Louisiana Purchase
		In 1803, The United States government purchased the Louisiana Territory from Napolean I of France for 60 million Francs, or, about $15,000,000.
		The Louisiana Purchase was consumated in order to secure free navigation of the Mississippi River.
		Time was of the essence because many viewed Napoleon's acquisition of the Louisiana Territory as a means to invade the United States.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /history/lapurchase.htm (254 words)

	The Louisiana - The United States Mint
		The Louisiana quarter, the third quarter of 2002 and eighteenth in the series, displays the image of Louisiana's state bird -- the pelican, a trumpet with musical notes, and the outline of the Louisiana Purchase territory, along with the inscription "Louisiana Purchase."
		Dubbed the "greatest real estate deal in history" the Louisiana Purchase added thirteen new states to the Union, nearly doubling its size and making it one of the largest countries in the world.
		The trumpet on the coin is a tribute to the state's heritage of jazz music, a genre heard and played by millions of enthusiasts around the globe.
	www.usmint.gov /mint_programs/50sq_program/states/index.cfm?state=LA (245 words)

	Louisiana Travel - Home Page
		The Louisiana Cultural Economy Initiative (CEI) was founded in the Spring of 2005 as a catalyst for growth within the state's burgeoning cultural economy.
		Its primary mission is to support the development and enhancement of the unique cultural industries of Louisiana.
		The Louisiana Economy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) organization.
	www.louisianatravel.com (147 words)

	Exhibit: The Louisiana Purchase (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Louisiana Purchase has been described as the greatest real estate deal in history.
		The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States, making it one of the largest nations in the world.
		The Louisiana Purchase consists of three separate agreements between the United States and France: a treaty of cession and two agreements providing for the exchange of monies in the transaction.
	www.archives.gov /exhibits/american_originals/loupurch.html (215 words)

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