Trade route
He no longer needed a base in North America. (apex)
He needed the cash to continue his European War.
Jefferson wanted Lewis and Clark to explore the Louisiana Purchase because he wanted to know what the place was like. Example: what animals live there, what is the landforms, who are the Indians who live there, etc.
A primary reason for Thomas Jefferson's desire to purchase the Louisiana Territory was the strategic significance of New Orleans as a vital port for trade and commerce. Control over New Orleans would ensure access to the Mississippi River, facilitating the movement of goods and resources for western expansion. Jefferson believed that securing this territory would promote agricultural growth and economic stability for the young nation.
Whatever Napoleons dream of colonial empire may have been, the uprising in San Domingo [Haiti] cheked the occupation of the claimed territory; and later the later the imminence of another war with Great Britain compelled the sale of Louisiana to prevent it from falling into the hands of the enemy.
The main reason the Louisiana territory was sold to the US was because the seller, France was broke following recent war expenses. The Louisiana Territory roughly encompassed 13 central and western states, from Louisiana to Montana.
Trade route
Trade route
He no longer needed a base in North America. (apex)
He needed the cash to continue his European War.
he needed money to pay for a war with Britain
He hoped to find an easy trade route to the Pacific
apex - He hoped to find an easy trade route to the Pacific.
to avoid war with France
To conquer all Native Americans living on the land
Only to the extent you consider the War of 1812 a reprise of the revolutionary war. Louisiana was a French territory at the time of the American Revolution, not a British colony, so there was no particular reason for it to be affected.