Question

I DONT WANT THE ANSWER! Just read please .You are a Native American living in the U.S. in 1803. You just found out the U.S. government purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. Speculate how this purchase will affect you and your family. (In the form of either a diary entry or a letter.) I dont need the answer I just wanted to understand where the Us territory was. On the United states map, the Louisiana territoy goes from the middle of the united states North to south. Where was the united states?

Answer 1

@Preetha

Answer 2

Anyone know?

Answer 3

http://gatewayno.com/history/images/la_pur.gif
Is this what you need?

Answer 4

yea...well where was the U.S?

Answer 5

That whole middle part is the U.S right?

Answer 6

Yes pretty much

Answer 7

That was all to the US at the time

Answer 8

where it says Louisiana Purchase, whos territory did the belong to?

Answer 9

France
teh French had Louisiana and that whole area and we bought it.

Answer 10

ok and what area did the united states have?

Answer 11

The right area

Answer 12

before they purchases it from france?

Answer 13

We had everything to the right of the purchaser line, left still belonged to other people I'm pretty sure.

Answer 14

Oh and FL wasn't ours I think

Answer 15

Belonged to Spain or something weird like that

Answer 16

http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/louisianapurchase.htm

Answer 17

i found that, check it out

Answer 18

as for my answer, I would say that it doubled the size of the united states, and cornered the spanish and they eventually lost. Then i could add in things like it gave jobs and population grew

Answer 19

something along those lines right?

Answer 20

The USA did double in size, we also gained access to the Mississippi and uhm That port city in Louisiana (can't think of the name) It also connected us to the Spanish who we eventually crushed.

Answer 21

Thanks for helping, your kind :)

Answer 22

Glad I could help =D