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Title : The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal? (What Would You Do? (Enslow))
Category: 1800s
Brand: Enslow Elementary
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At the dawn of the nineteenth century, President Thomas Jefferson dispatched Robert Livingston and James Monroe to negotiate with the temperamental French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte. Originally charged with only securing the Port of New Orleans and access to the Mississippi River, they soon were presented with the deal of a lifetime—the purchase of the whole Louisiana Territory. With no time to contact the president, they had to make the decision themselves. What would you do if faced with the same decision? Author Elaine Landau poses this and other exciting questions to the reader in this lively account of the Louisiana Purchase.

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This concise, well written history of The Louisiana Purchase will fascinate the young reader!
Before the Louisiana Purchase the United States consisted only of the "land east of the Mississippi River." Americans were looking toward expansion, but with Spain's hold on the lands to the west of the river, it was impossible. King Louis XV had given his cousin King Charles III of Spain this territory as a "thank you" gift and he wasn't about to let go of it. The port of New Orleans was crucial to trade and in 1795 the Treaty of San Lorenzo, or Pinckney's Treaty allowed settlers to use it. Later, the "uneasy" Spaniards, violated the treaty and closed the port in 1798. Trouble was brewing.

The settlers felt abandoned and angry. Even their complaints via mail took "weeks or even months" to reach the east and their president. In the meantime, Napoleon, a man who craved power, "had his eye on Spain's land in America." Spain's Queen Maria Louisa "thought the land in America was just a big swamp" and was more than happy when it was exchanged with France for a bit of the...
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Great purchase aligned with the third grade curriculum