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What made the United States interested in buying territory from France​

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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.

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the louisiana purchase was made in 1803. Thomas Jefferson bought it from France for about 15 mill

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