The louisiana territory was purchased from george iii.
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Actually the answer is false. Jefferson sent James Monroe to Napoleon with instructions to offer as much as $10,000,000 for New Orleans and a part of Florida. Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory to gain control of the Mississippi River and New Orleans 

answer-the island had airfields that the u.s. military needed.

while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.