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Louisiana Purchase: Louisiana Purchase Transfer
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Meriwether Lewis was in Washington when the news about the Louisiana Purchase arrived. Lewis was delighted with the news for it meant much of his exploring would be done in his own country. It was now his duty to tell the Western Indian tribes that the United States controlled the Louisiana Territory and that the Great Chief resided in Washington D. C. In the fall of 1803, he sailed down the Ohio River and picked up his friend, William Clark, in Indiana. From there they traveled to St. Louis to spend the winter. On March 10, 1804 Lewis witnessed the ceremony in St. Louis that transferred Upper Louisiana to the United States of America.
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The Louisiana Purchase, approved by treaty in April of 1803, transferred from France to the United States over 800,000 square miles of land. Overnight it doubled the size of the United States.
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A special guided tour focusing on the fundamental transformation faced by Americans during the time of the Louisiana Purchase Transfer has been especially designed for students and will be conducted by Louisiana State Museum Education Department docents. Along with discussing the profound significance of the Purchase and its far-reaching ramifications, the tour will ... center around the explorations into this new territory. The vast open spaces of the Louisiana territory drew immigrants from all over Europe, changing the character of the nation by increasing its social diversity. The push to settle the new territory shifted the eyes of the country westward, making further expansion almost inevitable and giving birth, if not to the term, at least to the forces behind, "manifest destiny." Tours will commence in the Jackson House located at 619 St. Peter Street (left rear side of Cabildo). Please call (504) 568-8788 for reservations.
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Spain protested Napoleon's sale of Louisiana, and Pierre Clément de Laussat, French commander in New Orleans, called the Purchase an Aimpudent lie. But the United States Congress hastily passed legislation authorizing the Purchase. President Jefferson named William Charles Cole Claiborne the first territorial governor and sent him and General James Wilkinson to take possession from Laussat. On November 30, 1803, Spain's representatives, Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transferred Louisiana to France's representative, Prefect Laussat. Although Laussat had been instructed to transfer Louisiana to the United States the next day, twenty days actually separated the transfers, during which time Laussat was governor of Louisiana.
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The nation-changing Louisiana Purchase subsequently almost doubled the size of the United States overnight. This massive transfer of land included all of present-day Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa; most of Colorado, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, as well as significant parts of North Dakota, Minnesota, Texas and Louisiana.
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The furniture on display in today's Sala Capitular has been reproduced from an existing inventory of the furniture present in the room during the Louisiana Purchase transfers. The original furniture no longer exists.
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