I live in Alabama and about 20 years ago while visiting New Orleans, I bought an antique dresser. I refer to it as "the Louisiana purchase". It was expensive.

@donrowson105

Ай бұрын

I hope you didn't spend too much money on it. I'd hate to see you go "baroque".

@bechet12

Ай бұрын

So what would you say if it was made in Alabamabut stolen and taken to Louisiana?

What is almost never mentioned is that the Louisiana Purchase was only possible because Alexander Hamilton's financial policies -- which Jefferson adamantly opposed -- made the early U.S. Republic solvent. Otherwise, we would never have had the money (or the credit rating with Europe) to purchase Louisiana.

Thank you Napoleon!

@robertperry4439

Ай бұрын

Thank the people of Haiti, who fought for freedom. Without them Napoleon would not have sold the Louisiana Territory.

I love history so much

@robertperry4439

Ай бұрын

When I was younger, I was fascinated by historical events, but that is in the past.

You are just a master! The videos are energizing with positivity.

Ok. The dark side is the Purchase gave the US military a place to deport Eastern Indians. It made the Trail of Tears possible.

is Thomas Jefferson one of the considered great Presidents of US because of this purchased?

@christopherkeedy7848

Ай бұрын

One of the many reasons

@jadams1722

24 күн бұрын

He authored the Declaration of Independence. That document is considered by many scholars as the most important document for human rights ever conceived. kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZIed1Zdxe5rgZag.htmlsi=Xor2J6WgJkOoJK9c

Thanks for the documentary guys! I was just thinking about this the other day after seeing a map that suggested the territory was purchased from Spain. Cool to have it cleared up for me cause it was bothering me lol.

Interesting, as always. Thanks. If I may say, fewer to no visual movements would be less distracting from these fantastic images you use.

Forgetting about the war between France and America due to the US reneging on loans from the Revolutionary War leaves a gap in this story.

Livingston was sent to France just to buy New Orleans. It was the French who surprised him with an offer to sell all the Mississippi watershed. He of course snapped at it.

We teach this entirely different on the Rez.

Indians never knew they were living in France.

@skoshow8418

22 күн бұрын

Native Americans never knew Indians existed…

@allenatkins2263

21 күн бұрын

@@skoshow8418 I'm a Native American.

As an American I marvel that we did not just invade and occupy it.

Wrong. Jefferson offered to buy ew Orleans, and Napolean offered the whole territory. Jefferson threatened the French that if they did not sell it to him he would take it. Thie is Pretty Lame.

Todays Supreme Court would have determined that Jefferson did not have the constitutional authority to purchase Louisiana. Trump would say it would be up to each state to decide if they wanted to expand our nation. The entire Louisiana Purchase opportunity would have been lost.

We didn’t suffer from 4 years of a good Pres, then 4 years of a bad Pres, like we do now. No matter which Party they were defining, they were all Patriots that believed in making the best country that could ever be made.