STARTER QUESTIONS
1. WHO BECAME LEADER AFTER THE FRENCH REVOLUTION?
2.DESCRIBE NAPOLEON’S NEW VISION AND HOW WAS HE GOING
TO ACCOMPLISH THIS.
3.DID NAPOLEON STICK TO HIS PLAN? WHY OR WHY NOT?
4.HOW DID NAPOLEON ACQUIRE LOUISIANA?
WHO BECAME LEADER AFTER THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION?
•NAPOLEAN BONEPARTE
DESCRIBE NAPOLEON’S NEW VISION AND HOW WAS HE GOING TO
ACCOMPLISH THIS.
•HIS ENVISIONED A FRENCH EMPIRE – HE WAS
GOING TO ACCOMPLISH THIS BY MAKING
LOUISIANA A MILITARY BASE AND REGAINING
CONTROL OVER HAITI
DID NAPOLEON STICK TO HIS PLAN? WHY OR WHY NOT?
•NO HE DID NOT. HE LOST SOLDIERS IN THE SLAVE REVOLTS
IN HAITI AND MANY TO YELLOW FEVER. HE NEEDED TROOPS
FOR WAR WITH BRITAIN. HE COULD NOT PROTECT
LOUISIANA WITHOUT HAITI – HE NEEDED MONEY.
HOW DID NAPOLEON ACQUIRE LOUISIANA?
•SECRET TREATY OF ILDEFONSO – HE WAS KEPT
SECRET FOR CLOSE TO TWO YEARS BEFORE THERE
WAS AN OFFICIAL TRANSFER OF LEADERSHIP
TIME LINE TO LOUISIANA PURCHASE
1800
TREATY OF SAN ILDEFONSO
SPAIN GIVES LOUISIANA TO FRANCE
1801
•THOMAS JEFFERSON BECOMES PRESIDENT
•HE WANTS TO TAKE OVER NEW ORLEANS
•SENDS DIPLOMATS TO BUY NEW ORLEANS FOR 2 MILLION
•OFFER REJECTED
1802
•NAPOLEON SENDS TROOPS TO HAITI – MANY DIE OF
YELLOW FEVER AND FROM REVOLTS
•SPAIN SUSPENDS RIGHT OF DEPOSIT – UPSETS
AMERICANS
1803
•THOMAS JEFFERSON SENDS DIPLOMATS AGAIN TO
TRY TO PURCHASE NEW ORLEANS FOR 10 MILLION
•NAPOLEON NEEDS THE MONEY FOR WAR SELLS ALL
OF LOUISIANA FOR 15 MILLION ON APRIL 30, 1803
1812
•LOUISIANA BECOMES A STATE
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. WHAT CONVINCED NAPOLEON TO SELL LOUISIANA?
2. WHO BOUGHT LOUISIANA FROM NAPOLEON?
3. WHEN WAS LOUISIANA PURCHASED?
4. WHAT WAS SIGNIFICANT ABOUT LOUISIANA?
5. HOW DID LOUISIANA CHANGE UNITED STATES?
VIEWS ON LOUISIANA PURCHASE
Complete a Flyer from the view point of
• NAPOLEON BONAPARTE – PAGE 264
• THOMAS JEFFERSON – PAGE 267
• CONGRESS - PAGE 268
• PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA – PAGE 270