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Author:

Landau, Elaine, author. 196830

Title:

Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase : would you make the deal of the century? / Elaine Landau.

Publisher:

Enslow Elementaryan imprint of Enslow Publishers, Inc.,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

48 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Louisiana Purchase--Juvenile literature.
United States--Territorial expansion--Juvenile literature.
Napoleon--I,--Emperor of the French,--1769-1821--Relations with Americans--Juvenile literature.
Jefferson, Thomas,--1743-1826--Juvenile literature.

Other Titles:

Louisiana Purchase

Notes:

"Originally published as The Louisiana Purchase: would you close the deal? in 2008"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.

Contents:

A nation waiting to grow -- Settlers move West -- Many stay in America -- Spain accepts France's deal -- Robert Livingston goes to France -- Livingston has little success -- Jefferson tries to make a deal -- Napoleon does not sell -- Congress avoids war -- Napoleon does not attack the British -- Napoleon decides to sell -- Livingston and Monroe make the Louisiana Purchase!

Series:

What would you do?
Landau, Elaine. What would you do?

ISBN:

0766063054
9780766063051

OCLC:

(OCoLC)883836268

LCCN:

2014025052

Locations:

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

XHPD657 -- Glenwood Public Library (Glenwood)