Answer:
Explanation:
The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.
[T]his little event, of France possessing herself of Louisiana, ... is the embryo of a tornado which will burst on the countries on both shores of the Atlantic and involve in it’s effects their highest destinies.1
President Thomas Jefferson wrote this prediction in an April 1802 letter to Pierre Samuel du Pont amid reports that Spain would retrocede to France the vast territory of Louisiana. As the United States had expanded westward, navigation of the Mississippi River and access to the port of New Orleans had become critical to American commerce, so this transfer of authority was cause for concern. Within a week of his letter to du Pont, Jefferson wrote U.S. Minister to France Robert Livingston: "every eye in the US. is now fixed on this affair of Louisiana. perhaps nothing since the revolutionary war has produced more uneasy sensations through the body of the nation."2
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Answer: D. It disrupted trade
Explanation:
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Egypt is located in a strategic region in the Middle East. Any empire controlling Egypt would control the Seuz Canal which was a gateway to trading in the east by European countries. The Nile River is another reason for wanting control of the country. The control of the Nile Delta would open up the country to trading goods for money. The third reason is that any party controlling Egypt could use their armies as their own to further exert power. the British took control of Egypt for these reasons.
