Documenting United States History

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Document 9.1 Map of the Louisiana Purchase
1805

Napoleon Bonaparte surprised Thomas Jefferson’s administration with an offer to sell the
Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803. Acquisition of the territory doubled the size
of the United States and opened the regions between the Mississippi River and the Rocky
Mountains to American settlement.

Expansion, Compromise, and Conflict


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P raCTICIng historical Thinking


Identify: Describe the boundaries and terrain of the Louisiana Purchase.
Analyze: How might doubling the size of the United States shape Americans’ per-
ceptions of their nation’s Manifest Destiny (see Chapter 8)?
Evaluate: To what extent was the Louisiana Purchase a continuation of European
efforts to colonize the New World?

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