Louisiana Purchase

No biography of my life would be complete without a chapter on the Louisiana Purchase.
As President I made many important decisions. One of the most important was the
decision to make the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size
of the United States and made this great country one of the largest nations in the world.

Before the Louisiana Purchase, the United States was made up of thirteen colonies.
Louisiana and the port of New Orleans were under Spanish rule. The port of New
Orleans was important to the United States as a place of import and export of goods. The
Treaty of San Lorenzo had provided that for three years America could use the port. In a
secret treaty Spain returned the Louisiana colony to France which was headed by
Napoleon Bonaparte who was planning on conquering all of Equorpe.

I was deeply concerned that Napoleon would create a French empire in North America
and then close the Mississippi River and the port of New Orle...