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    Louisiana Purchase
    Louisiana Purchase
    Louisiana Purchase
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    Louisiana Purchase

    By Peter Roop and Connie Roop

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    The big purchase that led to fundamental questions about what America would become

    In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from the French for $15 million, extending the United States beyond the Mississippi River for the first time.
     
    Now the United States had big questions to answer: How would Louisiana be governed? How would it be divided? Would it be comprised of free states or slave states? What would happen to the Native Americans? With biographical sketches of the people who helped forge the answers to these questions, such as Lewis and Clark, Napoleon Bonaparte, and of course, Thomas Jefferson, this is the tale of the expansion of the United States into a new territory as well as a new era.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMay 5, 2015
    ISBN9781504010146
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    Peter Roop

    Peter and Connie Roop are award-winning authors and educators who have published over one hundred children’s books, including the Reading Rainbow feature selection Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie. They have written biographies, historical fiction, general fiction, and science books. In 2013 the Wisconsin Library Association recognized the Roops as Notable Wisconsin Authors for their body of work, and Peter Roop has been named a Wisconsin State Teacher of the Year.

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      Louisiana Purchase - Peter Roop

      1

      NAPOLÉON TAKES A BATH

      April 7, 1803. Napoléon, the ruler of France, settled into his hot bath. Napoléon enjoyed soaking in his steaming tub as he planned to conquer other countries. Already he had conquered parts of Europe. Now Napoléon set his eyes on the next prize: the island kingdom of Great Britain, less than twenty miles away from the French coast.

      Scratch, scratch, scratch.

      Napoléon had forbidden anyone to knock on his Paris palace doors. Everyone had to scratch like a cat in order to see Napoléon, the Man of Destiny. Napoléon frowned at the interruption, but nodded to his servant to open the door.

      Lucien, Napoléon’s younger brother, marched in.

      In a book about his life, Lucien Bonaparte described the following historic events, highlighting the conversations as he remembered them.

      As Napoléon and Lucien talked about their childhood in Corsica, they heard, scratch, scratch, scratch. Another interruption!

      Let him come in, Napoléon said. I will stay in the water a quarter hour longer.

      This time Joseph, Napoléon’s older brother, entered the bathing room.

      Lucien bragged about the secret treaty he had just negotiated with Spain. Spain, which had owned Louisiana since 1763, had recently given Louisiana back to France.

      Joseph and Lucien broke into a heated argument about what to do with this vast Louisiana territory, far away in North

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