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| | Louisiana Purchase: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic |
 | | Spain also held that the purchase was illegal; because the treaty handing Louisiana to the French had stipulated the French were not allowed to hand it over to a third power, EHandler: no quick summary. | | | Napoléon added the money from the sale of the Louisiana territory to his massive war chest and began his plans to control the European continent. | | | [Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] (Louisiana had been a colony of Spain since 1762). |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/lo/louisiana_purchase.htm
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| | Louisiana Purchase - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Louisiana Purchase |
| | Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness | | | Following the French and Indian War, the Louisiana territory was ceded to Spain by France in 1763. | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Louisiana%20Purchase
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| | Louisiana Purchase on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The revelation in 1801 of the secret agreement of 1800, whereby Spain retroceded Louisiana to France, aroused uneasiness in the United States both because Napoleonic France was an aggressive power and because Western settlers depended on the Mississippi River for commerce. | | | Jefferson's scruples about the constitutionality of the purchase were overcome by his fears that Napoleon might change his mind (as intimated in reports from Livingston) and by the overwhelming public approval of the Louisiana Purchase (although there was some objection from Federalists, especially in New England). | | | He decided to sell Louisiana to the United States. |
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http://encyclopedia.infonautics.com/html/L/LouisianP1.asp
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| | Louisiana Purchase Exposition - definition of Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Encyclopedia |
| | The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as The Saint Louis World's Fair, was a World's Fair held in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1904 which celebrated the centennial of the Louisiana Purchase (delayed one year). | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page | | | Louisiana Purchase Exposition collection at the University of Delaware Library (http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/fairs/louis.htm) |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Louisiana_Purchase_Exposition
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| | Louisiana Purchase |
| | Louisiana Purchase, 1803, American acquisition from France of the formerly Spanish region of Louisiana. |
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http://www.factmonster.com/id/A0830420
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