Question

Why was the Louisiana Territory important to France, Spain and the United States?

A. Increased access to farmland.
B. Reduced conflict with Native Americans.
C. Increased access to trade routes.
D. Decreased reliance on British goods.

Answer 1

A. Increased access to farmland.

Step-by-step explanation:

It's believed that the failure of France to put down a slave revolution in Haiti, the impending war with Great Britain and probable British naval blockade of France – combined with French economic difficulties – may have prompted Napoleon to offer Louisiana for sale to the United States. Future protection, expansion, prosperity and the mystery of unknown lands. Explorations and scattered settlements in the 17th and 18th centuries had given France control over the river and title to most of the Mississippi valley. To accommodate an ethnically diverse population. Doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution. It increased the size of the United States.