Manifest Destiny

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Manifest Destiny

• And the Louisiana Purchase

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Manifest Destiny

• Definition The belief shared by many Americans
  that the United States was meant to span from
  sea to sea.
• The following slide is an artists interpretation
  of Manifest Destiny

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American Progress by John Gast (1872)
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In the painting did you notice..

• Woman
• Book in her hands
• Telegraph Lines
• Stagecoach
• Farmers
• Railroad
• Covered Wagon

• Native Americans
• Horses
• Buffalo
• The sky
• Log Cabin
• Gold Seekers
• The Sea

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The Idea of Manifest Destiny led to the Louisiana
Purchase.
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Background of the Louisiana Purchase

• Napoleon Bonaparte is the Emperor of France.
• France gains control of the Louisiana Territory
  in North America.
• The United States wants control of New Orleans,
  in order to control the Mississippi River trade
  route.

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Background continued

• Thomas Jefferson is the President of the United
  States.
• Jefferson wants to keep control of New Orleans
  out of French hands.
• Jefferson tells Robert Livingston, the US
  Ambassador to France, to try to buy the city of
  New Orleans, and West Florida.

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An Offer is Made.

• Livingston meets with Talleyrand, the French
  Foreign Minister to discuss the purchase.
• Talleyrand says that without New Orleans, the
  Louisiana Territory is worthless to the
  Frenchhe wants to know what will the USA pay
  for the entire Territory!

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Why did Napoleon want to sell Louisiana?

• France was about to go to war with Great Britain,
  and he did not want to fight Great Britain and
  America at the same time.
• There were no French troops in Louisiana.
• Napoleon needed money for his army.
• Napoleon knew that if the USA owned Louisiana,
  they would be a threat to Great Britain in North
  America.

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How much was the Louisiana Purchase?

• Congress authorized 10 million to buy the city
  of New Orleans.
• Livingston made the decision to buy the entire
  territory for 15 million.

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The Louisiana Purchase
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What was Jeffersons response?

• Jefferson was uneasy at first because he did not
  believe that the Constitution allowed him to buy
  territory.
• But, Jefferson agreed to the purchase because he
  thought it was in the best interest of the USA.

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What was the effect of the Louisiana Purchase?

• It doubled the size of America.
• The United States had more room to grow.
• Jefferson believed that the purchase would
  provide a wide-spread field for the blessings of
  freedom.
• The Lewis and Clark Expedition were sent to
  explore the new land.