List two pros and two cons of the Louisiana Purchase

Pros

Us got the land meaning the people could expand onto it (Manifest Destiny)

We now had control of the Mississippi meaning we can trade on it.

Cons

We spent a lot of money on the deal, but still a good one

From a moral perspective native Americans were kicked off the land.

Explanation:

Pros:

1. It made the size of the U. S form 2x big.

2. The land was very cheap

Cons:

1. People got worried that the us would grow too big. When it’s too big it will be hard to govern.

2. They didn’t know if the Louisiana Purchase was constitutional

Explanation:

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b)

it created free trade throughout the colonial territories.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: