The Louisiana Purchase
Subtitle: Jefferson's Noble Bargain? (Monticello Monograph Series, Distributed for the Thomas Jefferson Foundation)
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: September 26, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781882886234
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; United States - 19th Century; History: American; History; History - U.S.; USA; United States - Antebellum Era; 1743-1826; Jefferson, Thomas,; Louisiana Purchase
First sentence: On the evening of July 3, 1803, the eve of the anniversary of American independence, President Thomas Jefferson received the stunning news the United States had purchased "the island of N[ew] Orleans and all Louisiana" from France.