The Louisiana purchase

Question	Answer
What does Spain do?	Secretly signs the Louisiana Territory to Nepolen in 1800
What does America want?	To buy New Orleans shipping port from France
Why does Jefferson send Monroe?	to negotiate with reps. in France - Port of New Orleans$10 Million
How much was the Louisiana Territory?	$15Million=$0.3Per acre
What was Jefferson's Delima?	The Constitution did not state anything about buying foreign land
Did Jefferson Sign the treaty?	Yes though he is very upset because it doesn't directly State it in the Constitution
Why couldn't he get an amendment passed for it?	it takes too long and the opportunity could be lost to buy
After Jefferson got the land, What does he do?	he calls for an expedition to explore and congress agrees
What do Lewis and Clark do?	they look for river routes connecting to the Pacific ocean - make contact with indigenous People tAke detailed Notes on their findings
How long was the expedition?	from Spring 1804 to Sept. 1806

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