Louisiana Purchase: Causation (jan 1, 1803 – apr 30, 1830)
Description:
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
Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 1803
apr 30, 1830
~ 27 years