France and Spain
The Louisiana territory was controlled by France from 1699 to 1762. France handed over the territory to Spain in 1762 and then again reacquired the territory in 1800. During their reign Spain had denied Americans access to New Orleans. Spain did not like American influence to increase in the territory. France at the time of reacquiring the territory had assured Spain that the territory would not be handed over to third party. Spain protested against Louisiana purchase which double the size of United States. Spain and USA later got into a dispute over the boundaries of the territory.
Before it was transferred to the United States in 1802, the Louisiana Territory belonged to France. The territory had been acquired by France from Spain in 1800 through the Treaty of San Ildefonso. However, the area was largely unexplored and sparsely populated at that time. The U.S. later purchased the territory in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
No. The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. Spain once owned Louisiana as a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. But, the French got it back with a secret treaty in 1800. Presient Jefferson used the Louisiana Purchase as a result, gaining much land.
Before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, New Orleans was ruled by several countries. Initially, it was a French territory, founded in 1718. In 1763, France ceded the territory to Spain following the Seven Years' War, and it remained under Spanish control until 1800, when France regained it through the Treaty of San Ildefonso. Ultimately, the United States acquired New Orleans and the wider Louisiana Territory in 1803.
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France controlled the Louisiana territory until 1803. The United States paid France a total of 15 million dollars for the territory.
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Louisiana Purchase
The Northwest territory, the Louisiana territory, the Texas territory, the New Mexico, California, and Oregon territories, and the Florida territory.
France and Spain
The Louisiana territory was controlled by France from 1699 to 1762. France handed over the territory to Spain in 1762 and then again reacquired the territory in 1800. During their reign Spain had denied Americans access to New Orleans. Spain did not like American influence to increase in the territory. France at the time of reacquiring the territory had assured Spain that the territory would not be handed over to third party. Spain protested against Louisiana purchase which double the size of United States. Spain and USA later got into a dispute over the boundaries of the territory.
Spain controlled Cuba until 1898.
No. The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France. Spain once owned Louisiana as a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1763. But, the French got it back with a secret treaty in 1800. Presient Jefferson used the Louisiana Purchase as a result, gaining much land.
The Treaty of San Ildefonso, signed in 1800, transferred ownership of Louisiana from Spain to France. This later facilitated the United States' acquisition of the Louisiana Territory through the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
In 1762 ceded what came to be called the Louisiana Territory to Spain in return for their help during the French and Indian wars. In 1800 my sources tell me that Spain gave or sold the territory back to France. In turn France sold it to the U.S. in 1803. I do not know how or why the transfer in 1800 was done. In writing a small history project, I would like to find how that transfer was made, and why. Any help? Dolores Dambach songbird71@toast.net France got control of the Louisiana Territory with the signing of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso in 1800. - G Oakley
Under Napoleon Bonaparte, France took back the territory in 1800 in the hope of building and that a U.S. President did not have the constitutional authority to make such a deal.