Why wasn’t Jefferson comfortable purchasing the land at first?-

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lilcutie2 · Answer

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nettym · Answer

This website should help! "President Jefferson became concerned that France had control of the strategic port of New Orleans, and sought to purchase the port and West Florida." https://law.jrank.org/pages/8368/Louisiana-Purchase.html OR https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-louisiana-purchase-jeffersons-constitutional-gamble

lilcutie2 · Answer

$\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}$ @nettym This website should help! "President Jefferson became concerned that France had control of the strategic port of New Orleans, and sought to purchase the port and West Florida." https://law.jrank.org/pages/8368/Louisiana-Purchase.html OR https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-louisiana-purchase-jeffersons-constitutional-gamble $\color{#0cbb34}{\text{End of Quote}}$ thank you

nettym · Answer

Anytime :) if you have any other questions lmk!