The Basics
This year the Louisiana Purchase was made.
What is 1803?
The U.S. diplomats sent to negotiate the purchase.
Who are Robert Livingston and James Monroe?
The pirce in which the louisiana territory was sold for.
What is $15 million dollars
The major river that runs through the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the Mississippi River?
This animal was famously described in detail during the Lewis and Clark expedition.
What is a grizzly bear?
The country the U.S. bought Louisiana from.
What is France?
The man Napoleon originally sent to reclaim Louisiana for France.
Who is Charles Leclerc?
The price per acre of the land.
What is about 3 cents per acre?
The Louisiana Purchase included land from this many future U.S. states.
What is 15?
The Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed in this European city.
What is Paris?
The U.S. president responsible for the Louisiana Purchase.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The U.S. Secretary of State who helped oversee the deal.
Who is James Madison?
The U.S. borrowed money from these two European banks to finance the purchase.
What are British and Dutch banks?
The western boundary of the Louisiana Territory was this natural landmark.
What is the Rocky Mountains?
Jefferson originally only wanted to buy this part of Louisiana.
What is New Orleans?
The leader of France who sold Louisiana.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The explorer duo sent to map the new land.
Who are Lewis and Clark?
This founding father criticized the Louisiana Purchase for being unconstitutional.
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
The northern part of the Louisiana Territory bordered this country.
What is Canada?
The Louisiana Purchase was so large that it took this many years for all of it to become states.
What is 113 years? (Oklahoma, the last state from the purchase, was admitted in 1912.)
The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the U.S., adding this many square miles.
What is 828,000 square miles?
The Native American woman who helped guide Lewis and Clark.
Who is Sacagawea?
Napoleon sold Louisiana to fund his wars against this country.
What is Great Britain?
The city Napoleon originally wanted to control because of its trade value.
What is New Orleans?
The Louisiana Purchase was considered one of the greatest real estate deals in history, but at the time, some Americans opposed it because they feared this.
What is too much government power or conflict with Native Americans?