The correct answer is Monroe and Livingston were sent overseas in order to buy Louisiana from Napoleon.
The purchase of Louisiana from the French resulted in the United States doubling in size. This purchase allowed the United States to gain 800,000 square miles. This would ultimately make 13 different US states and would help to expand Jefferson's idea of the United States becoming a nation of independent, self-sufficient farmers.
<span>President Thomas Jefferson sent secretary Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe to France to negotiate the purchase of Louisiana with Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor Napoleon).</span>
The Punic Wars were a series of three wars between 264 and 146 BC fought by the states of Rome and Carthage. ... By the terms of the peace treaty Carthage paid large reparations and Sicily was annexed as a Roman province.
