Louisiana purchase
By: Ally and Sydney
What is it?
The Louisiana Purchase started in 1803, with the purchase of approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic. What was known as Louisiana Territory, stretched from the Mississippi River in the east, to the Rocky Mountains in the west, and from the Gulf of Mexico in the south, to the Canadian border in the north. The U.S. payed $15,000,000 in total, with around 4 cents per acre. The problem was that they didn't know the land and didn't know if it was going to be free or slave territory. When the Louisiana Purchase was introduced, there was a battle going on for years between the north and the south.
How did it involve human-environment interaction?
Humans: Positive- They had more room for people to settle there. Negative- It ran the Native American tribes away. Environment: Positive- The U.S. got the port of New Orleans, which gave them control of the Mississippi River. Negative- There was less room to grow crops.