Louisana+Purchase

**LOUISIANA PURCHASE 1803** With the loss of Louisiana in 1763 after the end of the French and Indian war, France’s plan for a colony in North America had failed. However, with Spain losing resources from the land due to increasing pressure of American Settlement as well as Americans using the Mississippi, they sought to rid themselves of this drain.  With the Treaty of San Ildefonso, France was given Louisiana once again, and with the treaty of of Ameins, Napoleon also regained the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe form Britain. He planned to use Louisiana for a granary for the Sugar Islands.  However, after failing to recapture Santo Domingo, he sold the now useless Louisiana to the Americans for revenue for his war in Europe. Instead of selling America only New Orleans, he sold them the entirety of Louisiana for only 5 cents an acre. Jefferson only wanted to give 10 million for New Orleans, but for only 15 million, a raise of 5 million, Jefferson had doubled the size of the US, which he considered his greatest achievement in his presidency.