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The slave revolt in Haiti.
Well technically the Louisiana Territory was under the power of Spain during the time of the Louisiana Purchase, but was owned by France (Power transfer was still being negotiated.) Napoleon, with war imminent, a slave revolt in Haiti, low resources, and bankruptcy on the horizon, took the opportunity to sell something he thought he had no use for in order to raise funds. Napoleon Bonaparte of France sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803 for 15 million dollars, or 3 cents per acre.
Naponelon Bonaparte
Napoleon took back the territory of Louisiana from Spain in 1800, hoping to establish a French Empire in North America but a slave revolt in Haiti and an impending war against Great Britain make him to give up this plan and sell the entire territory the the US.
James Monroe an Robert Livingston negotiated for the US.A revolt of the western settlers.
It Made Napoleon willing to sell the Louisiana territory.
The slave revolt in Haiti.
Made Napoleon willing to sell the Louisiana Territory.
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Well technically the Louisiana Territory was under the power of Spain during the time of the Louisiana Purchase, but was owned by France (Power transfer was still being negotiated.) Napoleon, with war imminent, a slave revolt in Haiti, low resources, and bankruptcy on the horizon, took the opportunity to sell something he thought he had no use for in order to raise funds. Napoleon Bonaparte of France sold the Louisiana Territory to the United States in 1803 for 15 million dollars, or 3 cents per acre.
Naponelon Bonaparte
Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the nascent United States when he failed to take back Saint-Domingue from the Haitian slave revolt.
They gained territory