The Louisiana Bargain
About this episode
Desperate for money and facing a collapsing Caribbean empire, Napoleon sold Louisiana to the United States, helping transform a young republic into a continental power.
Research sources for this film
- Introduction - Louisiana Purchase: Primary Documents in American History - Research Guides at Library of Congress
- The Louisiana Purchase | Council on Foreign Relations
- Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803) | National Archives
- Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations - Office of the Historian
- 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Louisiana Purchase - Wikisource, the free online library
- The Louisiana purchase as it was and as it is
- "The Louisiana Purchase: Indian and American Sovereignty in the Missour" by Kent McNeil
- 8 Things You May Not Know About the Louisiana Purchase | HISTORY
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