Having lost his control of the Caribbean landholding, Napoleon saw no further use for Louisiana. The US was only interested in the New Orleans area; however, the revolution enabled the sale of the entire territory west of the Mississippi River for around $15 million. This purchase more than doubled US territory.
Lester Frank Ward, an American sociologist, botanist and
paleontologist believed that one of the government’s primary roles was to
protect the citizens from robber barons by regulating these big businesses. He
talked about it in his published 2 volume work Dynamic Sociology.
