Louisiana+Purchase

The Louisiana Purchase was one of the U.S. greatest purchases in my opinion. It doubled the size of the original 13 states and gave less power to the nationalists (which was a good thing). It also had one of the most interesting stories.

At first the spanish had owned that land but it was ceded to france in a compromise. So Napoleon's plan for it was to use the territory as a giant granary for the sugar islands (other wise the Caribbean's). There was one setback to that plan years earlier there was a slave revolt on Santo Domingo and the French lost control there so he tried to take it back but after a long time of fighting and countless live wasted he gave up trying to retake it. He had also sent his Minister to sell the whole territory to the U.S. Meanwhile the President of U.S. had been planning to just buy New Orleans and the rivers to it because it was pulling in 1 million dollars in profit every year. The President was prepared to pay 10 million for just that but when the minister and the representative met up and after hours of negotiating they decide on 15 million for the hole Territory covering a few owes to the U.S from France.