What was not a motivation for the Louisiana Purchase in 1803?
a) Napoleon Bonaparte’s French government needed funds to finance their wars in Europe.
b) Thomas Jefferson saw acquiring the territory from France to seize control of the port at New Orleans – a potentially valuable outlet for western U.S. farmers.
c) Thomas Jefferson feared a French Empire on the United States’ western border.
d) Thomas Jefferson hoped that the Louisiana Territory would be a springboard for the U.S. to acquire Texas as a new state.
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