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Why did President Jefferson send government officials James Monroe and Robert Livingston overseas in 1803?

O to negotiate the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from Britain

O to try to buy New Orleans and West Florida from France

O to offer to purchase the Caribbean island of Haiti from France

O to arrange to buy the Northwest Territory from Britain

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Answer: To try to buy New Orleans and West Florida from France - part of Louisiana purchase .

1. Britain didn't own the Louisiana territory, Hati commandeered by a slave rebellion, and the northwest territory did not belong to the British. The treaty of paris (after American Revelution) said that the Northwest territory was given to the United States

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