America's Louisiana Purchase: Noble Bargain, Difficult Journey | 2007

This documentary from 2007 explores the environment leading up to the Louisiana Purchase and the complex conditions it created for America as it struggled to become a burgeoning world power. It covers: the importance of the Mississippi River; Napoleon Bonaparte’s decision to sell the Louisiana territory; the signing of the Louisiana Purchase; the Lewis and Clark Expedition; the Battle of New Orleans; the forced relocation of Native Americans; slavery; the American Civil War; and westward expansion.

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my teacher is making me do an assignment on this

[@revinhatol]

FACTS: The watersheds of the Milk River and the Poplar River/Great Muddy Creek, which make up the northernmost part of the Mississippi/Missouri River basin emptying in the Gulf of Mexico, are the unmapped, unmarked northern boundary of the Louisiana Territory. Parts of the said watersheds are located in what are now the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

[@Afreefamilyman]

On my to Louisiana for the first time

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OMG

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26:40
sam hyde in the credits man, he can't keep getting away with this.

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Hello

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bye my history teacher made us watch this in class

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mines making me do a paragraph on it

[@born2shlt]

I am the first comment ever on this video, I am so “cool”

[@cassie8113]

Yeah😁

[@baberoot1998]

Does anyone know...what the exact western boundary of the Louisiana Purchase, inside the modern state of Louisiana was? Some have claimed it was the Red River. However...all maps I have studied, indicate, the western boundary was farther west of the Red River. Not by much...but still not the exact boundary according to maps I have studied. Does anyone know...what the exact boundary was? Was it possibly the Bayou Teche? I suspect...the western boundary may not have been very clear, back then...or even now. Appreciate any responses. Thank you.

[@jjeanniton]

(14:21) - Thus we see the origin of the widespread prejudice against Hispanics and Latinos in the USA

[@mcgiver6977]

Napoléon était un paquet de nerfs ! Les pièces d'échecs dans cette vidéo, le vrai Napoléon les aurait toutes petté !!!