What famous land purchase did the US get Louisiana?

Answer 1

The United States got Louisiana from theLouisiana Purchase of 1803 when Thomas Jefferson the Third President of the United States was in office, originally Jefferson only wanted to buy the port of New Orleans, but France under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte had lost their colony of Haiti and the one of the few reasons the French had held on to Louisiana was to supply Haiti. Another reason was, Louisiana being so far away from France Napoleon feared that he would not be able to defend it and he felt that it was better to have the Louisiana territory in American hands instead of the British. Also Napoleon Bonaparte at war with the superpowers of the the day Germany, Austrian Empire, Britain etc and he needed money to finance the war and he made the United States an offer they couldn't refuse asking only a few more million dollars than the Americans were offering for New Orleans alone. By making this deal Thomas Jefferson who supported the strict interpretation of the Constitution was sort of a hypocrite because he was against the elastic clause, even though he used it to obtain the Louisiana Purchase, for he feared if he waited for a Constitutional Amendment which allowed the government to acquire new lands Napoleon would no longer be interested.