Louisiana Purchase-路易斯安那购地.pptVIP

Introduction Background Negotiation Domestic opposition Treaty signing The original treaty of the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of approximately 530 million acres (800,000 sq mi or 2,100,000 km) of French territory in 1803, at the cost of about 4￠ per acre (7￠ per ha); totaling $15 million or 80 million French francs. 算上利息的话，美国为购买路易斯安那共花费了23,213,568美元。这块购买的土地包括了今天的阿肯色州、密西西比州、密苏里州、爱荷华州、俄克拉荷马州、堪萨斯州、内布拉斯加州、明尼苏达州密西西比河以南部分、北达科他州，几乎全部的南达科他州、新墨西哥州东北部、德克萨斯州北部、蒙大拿州的一部分，怀俄明州，科罗拉多州大陆分水岭以东部分，以及路易斯安那州横跨密西西比河两岸部分、包括今天的新奥尔良城。（俄克拉何马州狭长地带、堪萨斯的西南部和路易斯安那州在购买当时仍然被西班牙宣布占有）另外，此次购买也包括了最后成为加拿大亚伯达省和萨斯喀彻温省一部分的土地。 The modern United States, with Louisiana Purchase overlay (in green) A contemporary mapmakers vision of Louisiana edged on the west by the Rocky MountainsThe city of New Orleans controlled the Mississippi River through its location; other locations for ports had been tried and had not succeeded. New Orleans was already important for shipping agricultural goods to and from the parts of the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains. Through Pinckneys Treaty signed with Spain on October 27, 1795, American merchants had right of deposit in New Orleans, meaning they could use the port to store goods for export. 1804 map of Louisiana, edged on the west by the?Rocky Mountains Efferson laid the groundwork for the purchase by sending Livingston to Paris in 1801, after discovering the transfer of Louisiana from Spain to France. Livingston was to pursue a purchase of New Orleans, but he was rebuffed by the French.In 1802, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was enlisted to help negotiate. Du Pont was living in the United States at the time and had close ties to Jefferson, as well as to the political powers in France. He engaged in back-channel diplomacy with Napoleon, on Jeffersons behalf, during a personal visit to France. He originated the idea of the much larger Louisiana Purchase as a way to defuse potential conflict between the