Why was the Louisiana Purchase significant to the US?

Answer 1

• Type your answer here Because it had a bunch of space, and it wasn't hard for us to buy it, except it cost a lot The Louisiana Purchase is important because it doubled America's size.

The immediate reason for the purchase was to provide continued access to the Gulf of Mexico via the Mississippi River port of New Orleans. The Mississippi/Ohio river system was a vital transportation system for US commerce at the time. As it turned out, the land west of the Mississippi was an invaluable asset to the future growth of the US, as well as ending the threat of a foreign power occupying the land west of the Mississippi.

For less than three cents an acre, the Lousiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States. The purchase not only provided an outlet for the farm products of the west, enabling the agricultural goods to be shipped to other areas of the nation with less expense, but it provided more room for the ever expanding population and economy of the United States. The French and the Spanish would no longer be a threat along our western border. Raw materials were found in abundance, as well as future settlements that would grow and produce for the young nation. The lands of the Louisiana Purchase were settled by the 1890s. That period marked, to some degree, the ending of the frontier in the United States. The country would now extend from coast to coast.
because it double the size of the usa

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The U.S. doubled the size of its territory.
It expanded the United States to the Rocky Mountains
In 1803, the United States paid 15 million dollars for 530 million acres of land. That is 3 cents per acre of land.
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The importance of the Louisiana Purchase cannot be over estimated. It almost doubled the size of the United States. It also removed France from the Continental United States.

The importance of the Louisiana Purchase cannot be over estimated for its importance to the expansion of the United States. Here are some examples of its importance:

A. The "Purchase" in 1803 from France almost doubled the area of the United States; and

B. The Purchase from France effectively moved France out of the area of the "Continental" USA in North America.
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It roughly doubled the size of the United States and gave us firm control of the Mississippi River, an important transportation source.
it doubled the size of the country
It doubled the size of the United States.
It was important because it doubled the size of the U.S. for a little amount of money. !! Hope this helps..

Answer 2

The Louisiana purchase was important to the United States because it gained control of the Mississippi River system and its mouth at New Orleans, so no other nation could ever threaten to close it and destroy our internal trade.

It gave the US much more land, which turned out to contain vast and important Natural Resources. It removed one potential military threat by giving us borders only with the British Empire, to the north and with Spain to the south and west.
The Louisiana Purchase was important to the United States because it expanded the country.

Answer 3

Before President Jefferson made the Louisiana Purchase, it belonged to France. It consisted of land that now makes up all of Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and South Dakota as well as parts of what is now Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and Minnesota. When the US bought the Louisiana Purchase, it greatly increased the expansion of the United States.

As American settlers moved to the Louisiana Purchase, they came closer to Mexico. Mexico allowed Americans to freely settle in Texas, but soon afterward these Americans in Mexico became disgruntled and rebelled. Also, a dispute about the border between Mexico and the United States started the Mexican-American War (note that America and Mexico shared no borders before the Louisiana Purchase).

As a result of the war, America gained land all the way to what is now California, including nearly all of the American Southwest.

In a nutshell, the Louisiana Purchase set up a series of events that fueled American expansion to the Pacific and beyond, and without it the United States would only be up to the eastern edge of the Missouri River.

Answer 4

The Louisiana Purchase greatly increased the size of the United States and it gave the United States complete control of the Mississippi River. That made it difficult for a foreign nation to launch an attack into the heartland of the United States.

The British tried it in 1812. When the British could not resupply their Indian allies, the war led to the deaths of thousands of Indians.

Answer 5

secure control of mississippi river

Answer 6

The Louisiana purchase made it possible for the united states to settle across the Mississippi river.

Answer 7

It doubled the size of the country.

Answer 8

it doubled the size of america