The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal?
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, President Thomas Jefferson dispatched Robert Livingston and James Monroe to negotiate with the temperamental French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte. Originally charged with only securing the Port of New Orleans and access to the Mississippi River, they soon were presented with the deal of a lifetime, the purchase of the whole Louisiana Territory. With no time to contact the president, they had to make the decision themselves. What would you do if faced with the same decision? Author Elaine Landau poses this and other exciting questions to the reader in this lively account of the Louisiana Purchase.
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The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal?
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, President Thomas Jefferson dispatched Robert Livingston and James Monroe to negotiate with the temperamental French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte. Originally charged with only securing the Port of New Orleans and access to the Mississippi River, they soon were presented with the deal of a lifetime, the purchase of the whole Louisiana Territory. With no time to contact the president, they had to make the decision themselves. What would you do if faced with the same decision? Author Elaine Landau poses this and other exciting questions to the reader in this lively account of the Louisiana Purchase.
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The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal?

The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal?

by Elaine Landau
The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal?

The Louisiana Purchase: Would You Close the Deal?

by Elaine Landau

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Overview

At the dawn of the nineteenth century, President Thomas Jefferson dispatched Robert Livingston and James Monroe to negotiate with the temperamental French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte. Originally charged with only securing the Port of New Orleans and access to the Mississippi River, they soon were presented with the deal of a lifetime, the purchase of the whole Louisiana Territory. With no time to contact the president, they had to make the decision themselves. What would you do if faced with the same decision? Author Elaine Landau poses this and other exciting questions to the reader in this lively account of the Louisiana Purchase.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781598451962
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 01/16/2008
Series: Enslow What Would You Do? Series
Pages: 48
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.13(d)
Age Range: 8 - 10 Years

Table of Contents

A Nation Waiting to Grow     5
Settlers Move West     10
Many Stay in America     14
Spain Accepts France's Deal     18
Robert Livingston Goes to France     20
Livingston Has Little Success     22
Jefferson Tries to Make a Deal     24
Napoleon Does Not Sell     28
Congress Avoids War     32
Napoleon Does Not Attack the British     36
Napoleon Decides to Sell     40
Livingston and Monroe Make the Louisiana Purchase!     42
Timeline     45
Words to Know     46
Learn More (Books and Internet Addresses)     47
Index     48

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