HIST 3071 Chapter : 5
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The louisiana purchase high politics and regular people. Rising importance of trade the mart of this country : rely on mississippi river, people are drawn to new orleans because potential of city at the time. 1786-1788: negotiation and intrigue: american representative john jay with john jay about reopening river to everyone, spanish envot don diego de gardoqui spanish governor negotiating, 1788 carlos iii of spain dies, gardoqui recalled spanish authorities reopen the river. Global events: 1789-1795: 1789 french revolution begins, people are tired of the king, louis 16th, people see a falling empire in spain. St. domingue slave revolt: horrors of slavery acute, males, worked to death, rebellion equally cruel and deadly, examples from newspaper clippings for missing slaves in class, encouraged by french revolution. Pinckney"s treaty: 1794, thomas pinckney sent to spain, to negotiate again for access of the mississippi river for the.
