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why were the French willing to sell the loisanna territory to the United states why did the us want to purches the loissiana territory from french?

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To expand the United States
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It is believed that the failure of France to put down a slave revolution in Haiti, the impending war with Great Britain and probable Royal Navy blockade of France, and financial difficulties.

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