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To ask Napoleon Bonaparte to agree that the U.S. farmers could trade through New Orleans.
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No. Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from France in 1803 and that included New Orleans.
Thomas Jefferson sent two people to negotiate the price of New Orleans. Those people were James Monroe and Robert Livingston.
In 1802, President Jefferson sent James Monroe to France to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans. The negotiations also included the US minister to France, Robert Livingston. Napoleon unexpectedly offered to sell all of the French territorial claims in the Mississippi Valley, and the agreement became the Louisiana Purchase.
Robert Livingston
Robert Livingston
Jefferson wanted Monroe, along with the US minister to France, Robert Livingston, to negotiate the purchase of New Orleans. Napoleon instead offered all of the French claims in the Mississippi valley, and the 1803 agreement became known as the Louisiana Purchase.
Monroe and Livingston bought an empire (Louisiana Territory) instead of just a city (New Orleans).
Thomas Jefferson bought new Orleans for $14,000,000 (4 cents an acre)
Jefferson was concerned about that a foreign power might shut down the port of New Orleans
Robert Livingston.