Before the Louisiana Purchase, Louisiana was a French territory, and Napoleon threatened to block American access to the port of New Orleans on the Mississippi River. This scared Americans, because the nation wanted to expand the exports of American products.
President Jefferson sent diplomats to France to bargain access to the River, instead, Napoleon offered the sell of Louisiana. France needed money because of the war against Britain and then, the US bought Louisiana for 15 million dollars.
The Purchase impacted the Western Expansion since it doubled the size of the US and added more 14 states to the Union. It permitted the US to have more land to plantations and increase commerce and trade.
The philosophy of “Manifest Destiny” also became popular with the belief that Americans were destined to expand their territory.
1. Railroad can now give supplies better but now many are homeless
2. Think of it simplistically, if an employer can pay 5 people with $10 each (just an example), and then now the employer is forced to give each person $12.50, that means he’s now forced to lay off one of those 5 people so the other 4 people can have $12.50 each.
Basically it results in employees making more money, but also that other employees suffer and lose their jobs because of it. People want to raise minimum wage until they lose their jobs lol
