The answer is A. Poor harvests. The people had poor harvests and were starving, with the King doing nothing. As they grew more and more discontent they would riot and rebel, bringing about the French Revolution of 1848.
He was originally negotiating with for access to the mouth of the Mississippi River in New Orleans. France was low on money at the time, and in need of a lot of money to fund more of Napoleon's battles - so France offered their ENTIRE Louisiana Territory instead of just New Orleans for only three cents an acre
Most women and <span>children lacked the opportunities available to adult men.</span>
The imperialism prevails because it shaped not by distributing or transporting enormous numbers of refugees to settle and inhabit new lands, but instead by generating and producing political, military, and business structures that permitted them to govern and profit from existing inhabitants. This enhances imperial nations and formed new classes or types of people whose lives were molded by demands of imperial administration and business.