The correct answer is: The map illustrates the size of the Louisiana Purchase and suggests its economic potential.
Indeed, since the map does not have any highlighted areas that show the extent of sugar plantations, it can only be deducted that it only shows the economic potential of the territory by showing how so much of it is located within the warm, Sun Belt of the United States where the climate is favorable for the cultivation of sugar (especially the humid areas of Southern Louisiana and Texas.
After the Haitian revolution and its horrors, many free colored Haitians (and some white Haitians) escaped to the United States and started large sugar plantations since most sugar plantations in Haiti were devastated and never recovered.
The the beginning of the Civil War, President Lincoln ordered the U.S. Navy to place a blockade along almost 3,500 miles of Atlantic Coastline. This was so the Union could stop them from importing products in and from exporting their own good out of the country. Though many smaller Confederate shops were able to get out of the ports, they only had a little bit of goods, and the South needed much more to support their economy.
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Why does the old man add "if you should live till then"? He adds that, because he knows they won't last long. They will probably die quickly. ... The rioter accuses the old an of being a spy for death.
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