Monday, January 3, 2011

Chapter 9 Section 2 Closer

What are the advantages and disadvantages of acquiring (getting) the Louisiana Territory?

72 comments:

Ian Romero said...

The reason the Europeans moved to the thirteen colonies is because they thought they could get more land and get the Native Americans as slaves.This was bad because the Native Americans didn't want that

Cmahan said...

Some advantages of getting the louisiana territory is it gives people a easier way to travel and it's shorter. Some disadvantages are sometimes the weather was bad and it caused it hard to travel and sometimes people traveled on that path that they really did not want to travel on it.

Unknown said...

the advantages getting to louisiana territory was that there was more land for the people and the disadvantage was gettting there like in the witner lot of people died and people start to run out of food

mevin said...

some of the advantages are they have land and power they can farmer.some of the disadvantages are they had to go over mountains and things

deion moss said...

three advantages would be the US would double its size, an enormous tract of land would be open to settlement, and the free navigation of the MS assured.

Brandon schon said...

I believe that the Europeans came to America for religious freedom and for natural resources in America.

Payton brown said...

Some advantages are We would have control of the missippi river and it would expand the USA the bad thing is some people don't think we need land and the federlist talk about leaving the union

dylan tritt said...

a long journey to get there an advantage would be that there is a lot of land.

Jessica said...

The advantages toward getting the Louisiana territory is that the americans can expand outward and find new resources and another advantage is the people can trade along the Mississippi River or in new Orleans. Some disadvantages are that if the Americans own all this land is Tomas Jefferson might not be able to control or handle all the land and other countries could come and try to take over the land or the Indians could become angry from the Americans driving them off their land and attack the settlers and start wars or fights

Dami Okunoye said...

The advantages are farmers have lots of land to plant and grow crops but the disadvantages are that they don't know what type of land or who lived there or died there or how they died.

Thao Nguyen said...

The advantages of getting the Louisiana Territory was that there was more land and new opportunities, a disadvantage would be that the Native Americans did not agree with the Europeans , and they did not want them to move there , so they had to buy it from them.

Kyren said...

I think they didn't want that cause the Europeans would force them out of their land and try to make the natives work for them

brian bishop said...

the advantages are new land a second chance more things to find new trade routes the disadvantages are that they could find more things hat are harmful and people could go and get lost and die also they could not survive winters of exploring

Unknown said...

Some advantages are that it can help the pioneers ship things from where ever they need to send it. A disadvantage is that Jefferson dose not have enough money to pay for the whole land. Now Jefferson has to borrow money from the states to be able to buy the land.

Kaitlyn Dawson said...

The advantages of the Louisiana Territory is there farming,hunting grounds, and large land for living. The disadvantages are the natives. They will have to fight with the natives to leave the land or maybe even to begin there slaves.

Thai McCowan said...

The advantages of getting the louisiana territory is that it will bring a lot of money. Also its a disadvantage because it cost a lot of money to a country that is in deat

Cmahan said...

Some advantages of getting the lousiana territory is that, the people have a easier way to travel and it also provides more sites to see.
Some disadvantages are that to find the territory, Jefferson had to send out two guys to find And explor the place.The could have been hurt.

Ianromero said...

The advantages and disadvantages of purchasing the Louisiana Territory. The advantage is the thirteen colonies got more land the disadvantage is you're taking land from the native americans

Bragin said...

the advantages of the Louisiana Territory is that they had new cheap land , the disadvantages of the Louisiana Territory is that Thomas Jefferson was worry about the land and the taxes.

Kevin Neri said...

Some advantages to getting the Louisiana territory is that they would control the trade at New Orleans, and they almost doubled the size of North America, some disadvantages are that they went further in debt.

megablogger said...

Some advantages are that it provides farmers with cheap and abundant land.Also it gives people the opportunity to own their own home and piece of land.plus they can travel across the Mississippi river.

ktaulbee said...

Advantages of getting the Louisiana territory is it doubles the size of the country allowing us to expand and we are able to trade and travel along the Mississippi river.

Shane hart said...

Some advantages to getting the Louisiana purchase is that the country's size will double, people will have more job opportunities. Some disadvantages are that we would have to make a bigger army or that we would spread out the army and be less vulnerable, and jefferson didn't know what the land he was buying even looked like or what was there.

melvin said...

some advantages are they had a lot of land and power.some disadvantages are people can attack him and cost money

Suzie Humphrey said...

the disadvantages to acquiring the Louisiana territory is that the native Americans did not want to become takin over and then eventually become slaves and some advantages are that the Americans would be able to acuire the land and be able to have more land for more oppritunitys and be able to do more that the Native Americans were not fully able to do or even ever think of doing.

Kaleb brown said...

One good thing about the Louisiana Territory is that there was a lot of land there.One bad thing about the Louisiana Territory is that we did not no what out there like if there was good soil or if there was people out there trying to kill them

deion moss said...

US would double its size, an enormous tract of land would be open to settlement, and the free navigation of the MS assured.

dayna wickersham said...

advantages are that we have more land in the country but the disadvantages are that we are in debt from paying that money for the land.

Wcunningham said...

Some advantage and disadvanteg of gettin lousinsa terrotory is more land and more money.some disadvantages are we don't know what's out there and we don't know what to expect.

Kyra (: said...

The advantages are that they got more land to farm and a disadvantage is that I think they wasted there money on a piece of a land instead of worrying about the war and etc.

brandon schon said...

A advantage is purchasing the Louisiana territory is that it doubles the size of the U.S. A disadvantage is we have to pay a lot of money to purchase it.

mariah.s. said...

Some advantages: the Louisiana territory gave us more land that we can tax to make money.

Some disadvantages: the Louisiana territory cost us a lot and could cost a lot to take care of so people can live on it.

Payton brown said...

Some of the advantages are you would get a lot more land and you would get a lot more money and some of the bad things are the fedralist would want to leave the USA

jsingleton said...

the advantages are getting more land but the disadvantages are that the native Americans didn't want to give up there land.

Emani Thompson(: said...

Some advantages are that there would be more land and people would buy land had have stores and farms and make money from people buying stuff from them and buying crops . Some disadvantages are some people didn't want things like that , some people may not buy land or buy things .

croberson said...

some advantages are that we will have more land,and we will own the Mississippi River. some disadvantages are were going to be even more dept and the federalists will go crazy.

Paige Mckenzie said...

An advantage of purchasing the Louisiana territory is that we can get more land but a disadvantage of purchasing the Louisiana territory is that it cost a lot of money and it's going to be a hard journey to travel over there

Breana . Murray said...

An Dis-Advantage Too The Louisiana Territory iS War . More People iS Going Too Want That Land , So ThereFore iT Will Cause War , -&& The Loss Of Money . An Advantage Too The Louisiana Territory iS More Land .

Adriana Joseph. said...

Advantages to getting the Louisana Territory is they were able to make more money and get more farm land. Disadvantages to getting the Louisana Territory is the Federalist wanted to move out.

james dean said...

a disadvantage is that it would cost alot of money. an advantage would be you would get more land

Chris Chambliss said...

One advantage is that more people came to the united states and most people got land and anted to fight for their land so they joined the army so that made the U.S.A. more powerful to fight other countries. One disadvantages is that it cost a lot of money and we were in debt.

Dbolden said...

some advantages are having more land for people to live, farm, plant. some people might like that because they might be able to get gold or silver or what ever other resources they find. a disadvantage is other country might try to come and invade, something like war. and they might not be enough people to live in that territory.

julz said...

some advantages of purchasing the louissana territory was that we made are country bigger and if we were in debt we could just pay it off with our booming businesses we have since we have trading routes because of the mississippi river and all the land we have we can just sell it to farmers and get are prophet of what they make

aubrey pryor said...

it was a avantage because he got a lot of land and territory and slaves for a good amount of money the disaventage is that they didnt want to be slaves

Tehya Quinones said...

An advantage to purchasing the Louisiana Territory was that it added land to the country and expanded it. A disadvantage to the purchase was that it cost 15 million dollars and the nation was still working to get out of debt.

Robin Pearl said...

Welll they might try to get the native Americans to do what they Want them to Do and To follow their religion an advantage is that they will have more land for their self to farm, and build lands.

DMatthews said...

The advantages of getting the Louisiana Territory is having more land, building new shops, more farmland to farm and grow crops and sell your products, you can also sell and ship your products to markets down the Mississippi river.Some disadvantages are explorers can take over the land and claim it's their land and use other people as their slaves on their land.

Dominick said...

and they killed alot of the Europeans ..

P. Raines said...

the reason why the Loiusiana Purchase was a good idea was because they had so many more opportunities over there and there was more fertile land over there to it was a win win situtation in my point of veiw and over there it was way less crowded

Morgan Baldwin said...

one advantage is that they have alot of farming and space to be free. An disadventage is that it well be hard to get around with all that space and not alot of crops.

megan horne said...

the advantages of the louisiana purchase was more farm land for farmers and doubled the size of united states the disadvantages they didnt know if it was legal

AStamper(: said...

Some advantages of getting the Louisiana Territory are people can start farming and getting new land. Also it is good for trading with the Mississippi River and New Orleans. Some disadvantages are no one knows what is there so animals could have diseases and give the people the disease.

shawntaze said...

they wasnt really satisfied with the decisons

Mike said...

The advantages of getting the Louisiana territory are that: They doubled their land. They could get more furs and food and maybe money.
The disadvantage of getting the land is that they need more people to guard the land and there are more African Americans.

J,bell said...

The advantages of obtaining the louisiana territory are the ,chances to expand, advanture ,and new discoveries

Jazmen said...

A advantage of it is that there will be a lot of land to explore and other types of animals and plants. A disadvantage is that if you want to fix it up you would have to pay for everything and do it yourself and there is no gurantee that people wil come there after it is built

Unknown said...

Some advantages of acquiring the Louisiana Territory is that we will have land fore farmers an settlers for years and we may grow incredably wealthy by this. Some disadvantages is simply wear are we going to get to money to pay for this if we are already in the hole.

Dami o said...

The advantages are that the farmers have a lot of land to work on and grow crops but the disadvantages are that the French could have sold them the land because native americans could have gotten angry

Matt paluga said...

One advantage is we heve more land . Also we could make friends with native Americans . Some disadvantages are loose a lot of money . Also we could make enmies with the native Americans .

Kierstinbin said...

Some advantages getting the Louisanna territory is that it gives people an easier way to travel and shorter.

Raelynn Hopkins said...

The advantages is that there is a lot of land and the the disadvantages is that no one knows who was there before them.

Kbin said...

Some advantages getting the Louisanna territory is that it gives people an easier way to travel and shorter.

Marilyn dews said...

one advantage of buying the louisiana teritory would be having the new space, but one disadvantage would be the 15 million $ in extra debt.

Unknown said...

The advantages to buying this land is that we have more land owned now. The disadvantage is that the land is unknown.

alex ems said...

Some of the advantages is to get the Louisiana Territory purchase which is the country size, enough to grow crops, people will have better jobs there. Some disadvantages is that we would have to make a bigger army and spread the army all over.

Kaylyn S. said...

One advantage of getting The Louisiana Territory was they got more land to move to.

braydon west said...

AN ADVANTAGE OF GAINING THE Louisiana territory was it almost doubled the us and a disadvantage is that it was a long hard travel for people

Carrie Lindsay said...

- Some Advantages And Disadvanges Are That : Some Advantages : Is The Country Size , And Enough To Grow Crops . Some Disadvantages Are : That SomeTimes Land Was Bad And It Caused The Crops Not To Grow .

Kevin Smith said...

The Louisiana Territory doubled the size of our country. This was a major step in our country's development.

Demetrius said...

Some advantages are the size of the country will be bigger some disadvantages are you couldn't grow crops on some parts of the land

gavin said...

some advantages are that you expand your land in the Americas but the disadvantages are that they didn't know what the land was like

WoOlLy AwEsOmEnEsS!!!!! XD said...

some advantages of acquiring the louisiana territory is that you can now have more room for farming, more space and homes.