The Louisiana Purchase | 5 Minutes to Explain
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- Today I expain the Louisiana Purchase by the United States of America, from France - in 5 minutes!
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Brexit
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American purchases of Philippines from Spain
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Jefferson: So how much is this Louisiana Purchase going to cost?
France: It's three cents per acre real estate
Avery the Cuban-American hey ive sern you before on another geography video on another channel.
Coco The Crazy Cocker Spaniel me too
Me too
Coco The Crazy Cocker Spaniel I believe he's also Kim Jung Un
It hasn’t been adjusted to inflation
Donald wasn’t the first to offer money/gold to purchase Greenland, back in the 40s Truman wanted to buy Greenland because the troops didn’t want to leave
Exactly, also, it wouldn’t be a bad deal, since Denmark loses money keeping Greenland
Ikr. I hate how the media tries to make this look like such a crazy idea... dudes 40s were really crazy then maybe even insane.
@@The_Yosh Greenland is of huge strategic importance. Because of global warming, Greenland allows Denmark to claim part of the Arctic and potentially, in the future, control partially new trade routes in the currently frozen ocean. Greenland is also rich in resources, resources which cannot be gathered yet due to the ice, but in the future, Greenland could make Denmark a big producer in Rare Earth materials and considerably increase the country's economy (a little bit like countries like Saudi Arabia are really wealthy only due their oil).
It's also a question of pride and prestige, Danish people do not want to sell their last "colony".
Hi Kim.
Kim Jong-un But the Danes said no then, so the idea should have been buried under 60 or more feet of Greenland ice.
I think people must be aware that Norway and Denmark fought a legal battle over Greenland which was settled at the international court in 1933.
The reason behind is that Denmark ruled Norway for almost 400 years, but when The Napoleon wars were over and Denmark was on Napoleon’s side, in the Treaty of Kiel in 1814, Denmark must give up Norway to Sweden, but it did not apply to Norway’s old tax lands, Iceland, Faeroe Islands and Greenland; they were still under Danish rule.
Iceland became independent in 1944, but both Faroe Islands and Greenland are autonomous parts of the Kingdom of Denmark.
And besides the idea of buying people is an idea from the past.
The Louisiana Purchase area looks strangely like a greatly expanded Serbia.
lousiana is serbia
@@hw9903 but serbier
I know it! 😮😮😮
Louisiana je srbja
Louisiana Strong
The raw power of buying Louisiana for theee cents
Haiti, the first successful Slave Rebellion, and the first Country to Formerly Abolish Slavery, was the main reason that France sold the land.
Well, speaking of america it was not Haití it was the Vermont Republic, speaking globally it was the Achaemeenid Persian Empire
@@jaouad_h During the times that slavery was outlawed in this wiki, most enslaved people were Africans, either in the Americas or in the Ottoman Empire. I was referencing Modern history, not ancient History.
@@tamilly7941 The Vermont Republic was never recognized internationally as a sovereign nation. Also, I was referencing Modern history, not ancient History.
exactly
You are correct
Thank u for this video i will show my children to love America because we are American but also of Mexican American parents to appreciate all history between
Technically, it passed by 1 vote. If 1 person had changed their vote, the result would be 58-58.
*57-57
@@andrewharvey9964
59 - 1 = 58 ✅
57 + 1 = 58 ✅
Therefore if 1 person would've changed their vote from yes to no, it would have ended up tied 58-58 .
Where you get 57-57 from ?
wouldn't the VP be the tie breaker to split the 58 lock?
that make sense
@@toma6838He does it in the Senate, not the House.
Definitely one of the biggest payoffs in our history!
@@luxtayii3473 he meant in United States history
Not for the indigenous people
Ksenia Horoshenkova “our” history not the history of the natives
@@luxtayii3473 he meant his history
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A few things :
Napoleon did not buy back Louisiana to Spain
France defeated Spain in Europe, and made it clear it would be better for them to return the territory or something bad could happen.
And 15 million USD might not sound a lot today, but at the time it was equivalent to 1,5 times the US GDP
But it isn't alot even by then America was offering 10 million for New Orleans only.
When did France defeat Spain in Europe at early 1800? It was a chain of bad decissions of the Borbon Dinasty in Spain that led us to have France as an "ally". With that ally, who needs an enemy? Btw, Spain was actually defeated in no battle. In fact, First Napoleon's Army defeat in Europe was in... Spain (Bailén, July 1808)
@@piotrmoklinowski9103 mmm man of course the French defeated Spain in battle. Read about the 1st revolutionary war.
Spain joined the other powers who attacked our mighty republic to re-establish the royalist pigs in power. Spain invaded from the south (not surprising) in Rousillon. The French defeated them very heavily at the battle of Black Mountain and then pursued in Catalonia and during an other offensive they toook Bilbao and Vitoria on the other side of the pyrenees.
Spain decided they could not continue the fight and signed the peace of Basel. They ceded Santo Domingo and this treaty persuaded Napoleon to put pressure on them, secretly, to take back Louisiana.
And yes Bailen is a great spanish victory but it was a French army not commanded by Napoleon. When the Emperor came in person, he quickly defeated the Spanish-British
@@skiteufr I do insist: "early 1800's"... AND "First Napoleon's Army defeat" not needed Napoleon was present
@@piotrmoklinowski9103 ok but i was talking about the purchase of Louisiana from France to the USA. As it occured in the early 1800s France had to defeat Spain before... and it occured when i said
0:42 as a North Dakotan, I can relate to how everyone forgets about you EVEN YOU FORGET
At least you can still get a cool license plate there.
I teach American History and cover the Louisiana Purchase. This was a great recap video to show to my students! Thanks!
@Sgt. VinDoy A Great Question. As quiet as it is kept the whole state of Texas was apart of Lousiana- Territory, and thus should of been included in the Lousiana Purchase t00. The Borders of Thee Lousiana- Territory was delimited and fixed by moving it's Southern Border all thee way down to thee 0le Lower Rio-Grande-Valley. This is a little know fact. I can explain more if need be, and if you need or even want me to, then please do hit me up asap at my 0le email address named mralexcoffman@gmail.com.
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Hi John.
Question: If the land (Louisiana purchase) was purchased by the federal gov't, when the future States became a State, was that land purchased by the state (let's say Nebraska) from the Federal gov't?
Also, does each county then purchase the county land from the State?
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America: Hey, can we buy New Orleans from you?
Haiti: *Successfully Revolts*
Britain: *gearing up for war*
Napolean: Um sure. And we'll throw in the rest of this land too.
Heehee
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thank you for the great video!
love the video, easy to follow
I still can't believe this only costed 15MILLION there be houses that cost that much these days
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Okay, I teach both Missouri and American History and there is some missing information.
1. Jefferson offered to buy, not Louisiana, but only New Orleans. Napoleon who witnessed the loss of French Haiti and was locked in the continental system struggle with Great Britain needed cash. With Americans pouring into Louisiana, he realized if he didn’t sell it he would lose it anyway. So he authorized the sale of all of Louisiana.
2. Congress only authorized the purchase of New Orleans. President Jefferson wanted to secure the entrance to the Mississippi River for national security. When Robert Livingston and James Monroe returned with an agreement to buy more for less it left the Senate in an awkward position.
3. We call it The French and Indian War because it began 2 years earlier here before becoming the global conflict known as the Seven Years War.
4. Three Flags Day was remembered in St. Louis because before the USA could take control in St. Louis, the Spanish had to transfer it to the French who in turn transferred it to America. Spanish and French transfers were recognized by raising then lowering the colonial flag, ending with the American flag.
I read somewhere that Spain later claimed that they only sold to France the cities of St Louis and New Orleans and the west bank of the Mississippi, therefore the reat was still New Spain. (Notice how some of Louisianna is in Texas Republic.) This dispute is what touched off the Spanish American war. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this.
yes, that is true, Louisiana purchase rightfully belongs to the Spanish crown. The Spanish intermarried with the strongest tribe; Yaquis before losing to Mexico. Americans, Mexicans & others worked us to death exterminating & killing us in the thousands.
@Glen Edmondson No he is not lol,haven't seen any Spaniard before?
@Glen Edmondson I think that you might be confuse with "Hispanic" American
@Glen Edmondson Spaniards look just like any other Southern European(Italians,Greeks,Southern French) except from the Northern part of Spain where people tend to be fairer and have much more blonde hair or light color eyes
Needed it for class thanks
they do not mention, imo, a pretty key fact. napoleon was pretty much forced to sell to jefferson after the ship "El Cazador" sunk to the bottom of the ocean with a HUGE collection of silver coins. That shipwreck is called "the shipwreck that changed the world" you can actually buy some of the coins that laid at the bottom of the gulf of mexico, inside el cazador, for over 200 years. it was about 1993 when some fishermen stumbled across it.
Are you dumb that happend way after the purchase
You should do a video on the Gadsden Purchase and other US purchases 👌🏼👍🏼
What if Jefferson had stuck to his guns and not had gone through with it?
Thanks, Napoleon
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Also remember France should not have sold it to America. Their agreement with Spain was if sold, France was to give the first offer to sell back to Spain!
Napoelon was a treacherous bitch, that's what it is.
I want a what if that takes place in this timeline with California, Texas, Louisiane and USA.
So helpful 😉
Originally, the Americans wanted to purchase only the port of New Orleans and surrounding areas for 10 million, but then napoleon countered with the whole of the territory for 15 million and the diplomats accepted without input from the government. It left Congress dumbfounded lmao
That territory looks like Serbia without Kosovo.
Kosovo is Texas here.
it looks like kosovo lost half of their land
Never forget, Kosovo je Serbija
@Luís Filipe Andrade yes it is, you albania supporter
@Luís Filipe Andrade so, the mid west of the US is a separate country now?
that video was epic
I've always thought France sold the current state of Louisiana, NOT what's now 13 states!! This is sooo mind blowing and nobody knows that anymore or even cares!!
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A lot of people know it.
@@handle-schmandle no really no, a lot of people in the us don't know that
@@danemon8423 I don’t even know what to say to that. It’s pretty sad.
I learned this in Elementary school.... just because you don't know something doesn't mean that other people don't.
The crazy thing is the population numbers thanks for the info
Spain, giving up land since 1492
We need to ask Canada for that top little bitty bit back.
and that’s on me being born in des moines iowa & so many cities in the louisiana purchase being french names lol
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Thank you Haiti
*why am I here*
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***I’m so awkward help***
What I find interesting is that if this depiction in the opening map is correct, then Louisiana originally consisted of just north Louisiana and basically New Orleans and the area west of the Mississippi River, and east of the Atchafalaya Basin. You often hear many south Louisianans say that north Louisiana is not really Louisiana. Hmmmmmmm. Looks like maybe they aren't!
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Albeit it's not easy to say with perfect accuracy, that $15 million dollars is equivalent to about 4-500 million dollars today. It's also important to state that it possibly had to be presented in "actual value".
Nice
napoleon didnt want the french colony of louisiana to be taken by the british while he was at war with them, so he sold it to the united states of an abysmal price, there, explained in 15 seconds
America be lookin *thicc*
Wait till you see Russia in 17th century
Thanks I finished my homework now lol
Jefferson: Two things would make me happy.. Purchasing Louisiana, and a big plate of Freddy's delicious ribs
I'm from New Orleans Louisiana ya herd meh ⚜️⚜️⚜️
Louisiana used to be a French Colony.
Until our Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte sold it out to Thomas Jefferson in 1803
Denver, Colorado
Hamilton should be on Mt. Rushmore instead of Jefferson. It was Hamilton's economic system which allowed Congress to borrow the money, and negotiations were made by Livingston and Monroe. Jefferson, who only wanted New Orleans, deserves little to no credit.
What's $18 million in today's money?
We should do a movie in that….thing people could learn
I hate doing this for school
A red hexagon for a stop sign? Is the illustrator from 200 years ago?
Louisiana before: Biggest american state
Louisana now: uNOffIcAL pARt oF tExAs
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What were some negatives pertaining to the U.S. economy?
Were those 60,000 new Americans, Europeans or were they native Americans?
Or both?
Mário Botelho no, they are natives. They had lived there since humans first crossed they bearing sea land bridge some 42,000 years ago. By your logic, there would be no natives of any territory humans occupy except sub saharan africa
Mário Botelho I don’t really care who’s stronger or who conquered who, im only pointing out that your claim that native americans aren’t really natives bc they came across a sea bridge 10,000 years ago is absurd. if you aren’t a native to a land you’ve lived in for 10,000 years, I’d like to understand what your criteron for being a native of a particular area. From your logic humans are native only to sub-saharan africa. and i doubt you’d be willing to stand by that claim, bc at face value i think its obviously a pretty dumb thing to believe. And no, in saying that one group of people can migrate a land and eventually become native to it doesn’t necessarily give european or africans living in n. america the same claim to nativehood as actual native americans. their people have been there for 10,000 years. the rest of us have been there for a mere 400 or so, if that. so i think there is a clear hierarchy for who gets the better claim for the title of natives of n. america
Mário Botelho I’m not an anthropologist, so I can’t honestly give you a time frame for how long a civilization needs to be in an established area to be considered native. But I don’t think one is necessary if we just consider the huge disparity between the arrival of actual native, which is again 10,000 years, compared to european migrants, which was about 400 years ago. and many parts of the americas wouldn’t be touched by europeans until maybe 150 years ago. and I also don’t understand your obsession with conquest. Conquering a land doesn’t automatically make you native to it. when the romans conquered gaul they did not become natives of gaul. and when the chinese conquered tibet they did not become natives of tibet. So while you can take pride in these conquest, it doesn’t make anyone a native automatically
Mário Botelho no, you’re wrong. Just because I acknowledge that native americans are genuine natives even though their ancient ancestors migrated to the area, doesn’t mean i have to recognize your absurd claim that somehow by that logic I must also think europeans are natives, because a group living an area for 10,000 has a much greater cultural heritage and history in that area compared to a group who’s been there for maybe a couple hundred years. That’s just a fact and it isn’t the contradiction you make it out to be.
Mário Botelho and again, your logic is inconsistent. If the fact that nobody was there before the first people arrived in N. America mean they can’t be natives, then the same goes for Europeans, Asians, North Africans, etc. And again, I’d really doubt you would stand by a claim as absurd as that there are no natives humans to anywhere except sub saharan africa
If France hadn't sold it, they would have lost it for nothing anyway, so it was basically win/win deal that really changed nothing in long term history.
US just got it earlier, peacefully and more easily.
You are probably right, plus it would of cost money and ressources to defend it. But what is sad is many of the french speaking population will, with time, lose their identity, language and culture. Although they are trying to have it regain a little nowadays. But very few now speak french.
too busy fighting against the rest of Europe to care, probably. Napoleon's sight was set on the old continent.
@@marcalarie4756 u are forgetting the native american tribes living there.
Wow, France literally had most of the Great Plains region right in the palm of their hand at one point! Now all they have to show for their North American colonization efforts are the Canadian provinces of Quebec (most successful) and New Brunswick, the US state of Louisiana, a now-failed "free nation" experiment in Haiti, and a few more inconsequential Caribbean islands like Guadaloupe and Martinique. If only Napoleon knew what he could've had in the "New World" if he wasn't so caught up on conquering everything in sight back in the "Old" one (lol)...
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what a fucking deal. holy shit.
They offered 10.milliln at first for the whole Louisiana and parts of the Floridas but they did settle for 15 million for Louisiana and all of the Floridas
How do you turn credit into Gold ?????
what abt the impact this had on indigenous people
If Washington hadn't purchased the Louisiana Territory, would they have ended up conquering it militarily as with the northernmost Mexican territory in the 1840s?
18 dollars per sq.miles? ill take 150 sq.miles
Love you Jefferson ♥️
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Come to think of it. That would have been the second time the us would purchase land from Denmark. What's the first one?
The Virgin Islands
Hi, do you think there’s is enough information to write my 5-10 double paged research paper on how the Louisiana Purchase affected Native American (culture and life in general) ?
Do a video on the US corporation.
So how did Canada get back what is now their land?
What formed the border of the Louisiana Territory north of the 49th parallel?
the British claimed it as theirs, it's a border dispute
i love how its EXACTLY 5 mins long
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thats how Territory purchases became a US tradition
Did somebody actually asked the people living there at that time, like the natives and the few French or Spanish colonists, if they really wanted to join? Or was it the US way of ignoring the people when money is involved?
Why did they give a little part of it to Canada though?
Well, the 49th parallel. Because after buying that part, it left a big chunk of Canada south in the new US border. So, I guess the Brits agreed to give them that and the Americans would give them the part that went up to Canada's border.
What happened with the small part that is now in Canada ?
Claude Raymond Short history lesson,
after the sharing of the Oregon Territory, the US and UK make a deal, making the border a straight line, meaning the part in Canada goes to Canada. (i think)
It was the 1818 treaty between the British and Americans. They decided it be best if they divided the land on the 49th parallel.
The description has a typo
What country are you from?
Of which ethnicity were the 60.000 inhabitants of Louisiana prior to 1803?
And btw just 60.000???
Mostly the descendents of the French colonists and various types of mixed race people (Franco-Indians and Afro-Frenchs) though most were centered around New Orléans, the vast majority of the territory was populated by native tribes and small communities of French settlers organised in trading posts and forts along the Mississipi.
@@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332 so after 1803 was the area colonized by new european settlers from europe or were americans from the east encouraged to relocate there?
@@toxicbee990 The area took decades to be settled after 1803, most of the settlers were people from the east cost moving inland as freshly arrived immigrants from Europe often had spend all their saving in their journey to America and couldn't afford to push inland so they mostly stayed in the East Coast.
@@orpheonkatakrosmortarchoft4332 Not only from French origins but Spanish also. Many of them came from Mainland Spain itself, for example from the Canary Islands and from the area of Málaga (Andalousia), the motherland of the Gálvez family. You know, Viceroy of New Spain, Bernardo de Gálvez and so on.
toxic bee- In 1603 Samuel de Champlain named the territory from Labrador to Louisiana New France. That territory existed just west of what would become the 13 colonies along the East coast of the USA. At that time, the territory mentioned in this video further west would not have been part of New France. However, New France would have been settled by French speaking Europeans. This would only remain until the Seven Year's War was won by the British in 1759 at which time the territory would have changed back to the British. Because of the French settling in Louisiana, their emblem is the Fleur de lis as well as the emblem of Quebec.
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Funny how u refer the Haiti Revolution as San Dominguez rebellion 😆 #TheMatrix
nice video...was there ever a study of how native americans purchased land patents in this area...per Ft Laramie Treaty of 1868?
Conflicts in Europe did bubble.
And Napoleon surely had trouble.
"To support my commands
I will sell you some lands").
And the size of our nation did double!
----------------Limerick Rex
hi usa can u give us bak luisiana pls, we buy for good price but pls it was ultra cool and all pls we want louisiana back!!
I live in Colorado alright
Louisiana purchase only contained a bit of modern day Louisiana lol
What about the Canadian bit
The Brits and Americans probably kept the agreement to the 49th parallel. Because it also left a big chunk around that area to the present day US. So the Brits and Americans agreed to give those lands to each other.
Why...is it almost impossible...to find the exact western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase? No matter how hard I search...I cannot find the exact western boundary of this territory. Specifically...I am trying to discover the western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase...inside the state of modern Louisiana. From all maps I have encountered...it seems the Red River was NOT the exact western boundary, as many assume. Wish there was information on the exact western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase inside modern Louisiana. Cannot find any information on this.
So that's why there were Spanish coins there before it became America oooo can't wait to tell my coworker that his ancestors weren't the first ones here 😂
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Napoleon changed the world
I think the problem I'm having is with the texas part of french Louisiana, because for the texas revolution it shows that part of Texas is part of mexico
"What are the chances all those states suck?"
What’s the problems posed by the Louisiana territory? ANSWER PLEASE 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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They didn't not finish payment of 15 million, cause of war and like you said, other things..
0:22 That looks like expanded serbia.
how come the top part is far od Canada and not the united states if be bought it
Back at that time, Great Britain owned Canada, and I am guessing that losing that part of Louisiana to British Canada was part of a compromise to Canada losing some territory elsewhere; to make the border a nice, simple line.
The Louisiana was technically Spanish, Napoleon sold something that wasn’t French, it was Spanish...
Spain gave it back to France in the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso (1800).
@@nicolas.p331 In exchange of... what?
@@piotrmoklinowski9103 Some territories in Tuscany.
@@nicolas.p331 Bad deal...
Aleksandr Moklinowski mmm, no Spain gave the Louisiana or José Bonaparte gave the Louisiana, the new Spanish government didn’t give the lousiana to France