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Louisiana Purchase LITERACY · 5TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. In 1803 the United States bought roughly 828,000 square miles from France for fifteen million dollars, about four cents an acre, doubling the size of the country. Jefferson had sent envoys only to buy New Orleans, which controlled the mouth of the Mississippi and therefore all western trade; Napoleon offered the entire territory instead. Napoleon sold because a slave revolt in Haiti had destroyed his American plans and he needed money for war in Europe. Jefferson, a strict constructionist, could find no clause authorising the purchase and went ahead anyway, justifying it as a treaty. The land was not empty: dozens of native nations lived there, and the purchase transferred a French claim, not actual possession. Questions: 1 What had Jefferson originally sent envoys to buy, and why? 2 Why did Napoleon sell the whole territory? 3 What did the purchase actually transfer? www.littleactivity.com 5th Grade · Literacy
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Louisiana Purchase LITERACY · 5TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. In 1803 the United States bought roughly 828,000 square miles from France for fifteen million dollars, about four cents an acre, doubling the size of the country. Jefferson had sent envoys only to buy New Orleans, which controlled the mouth of the Mississippi and therefore all western trade; Napoleon offered the entire territory instead. Napoleon sold because a slave revolt in Haiti had destroyed his American plans and he needed money for war in Europe. Jefferson, a strict constructionist, could find no clause authorising the purchase and went ahead anyway, justifying it as a treaty. The land was not empty: dozens of native nations lived there, and the purchase transferred a French claim, not actual possession. Questions: 1 What had Jefferson originally sent envoys to buy, and why? 2 Why did Napoleon sell the whole territory? 3 What did the purchase actually transfer? www.littleactivity.com 5th Grade · Literacy
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