Louisiana Purchase: Causation (1 gen 1803 anni – 30 apr 1830 anni)
Descrizione:
Cause: - France's failure to put down slave revolution in Haiti - France's debt with Britain - Probable British naval blockade of France
Effect: - doubled the size of U.S. - strengthened country materially and strategically (Port of New Orleans & Mississippi River) - increased momentum for westward expansion - doctrine of implied powers of federal Constitution - elimination of France from North America