Louisiana Purchase et ses conséquences

📋 Plan du Cours

1. L’ampleur de l’achat de la Louisiane
2. Territoire et populations autochtones
3. Esclavage et guerre de Sécession
4. Les raisons de l’hostilité envers Lincoln

📅 Repères chronologiques

1. 1863Lincoln declared emancipation, freeing enslaved people in the South.
2. 1865The emancipation proclamation was ratified.
3. 1865Lincoln was assassinated a few days after General Lee, leader of the Confederate Army, surrendered.

📖 1. L’ampleur de l’achat de la Louisiane

★ À maîtriser

• The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States, extending its western border to the Rocky Mountains and its northern border to Canada.

• The acquisition cost approximately $15 million, or about 3 cents per acre; one acre equals 4,046 square metres.

• The purchase gave the United States control of both banks of the Mississippi River and of New Orleans, the port city connecting the river to the Gulf of Mexico.

Compléments

• The United States acquired approximately 828,000 square miles of land, with one mile equal to 1.6 kilometres.

• Thirteen states were later carved out of the acquired territory, either wholly or partly.

📖 2. Territoire et populations autochtones