Building an empire : the Louisiana Purchase
(2014)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
J/973.46/THOMPSON,L
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Vero Beach, Fla. : Rourke Educational Media, [2014]
©2014
©2014
DESCRIPTION
48 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781621698425, 1621698424
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
Louisiana : the new territory -- Napoleon's secret treaty with Spain -- Thomas Jefferson's dream -- The Lewis and Clark Expedition
Learn about the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, when the United States purchased approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France, thereby doubling the size of the young republic
1160L