1.)Why did President Jefferson want to acquire the Louisiana Territory? A.)Americans were facing a shortage of fertile farmland, so Jefferson wanted to secure the fertile farmland around the Mississippi.
B.)Jefferson wanted to prevent several European nations from acquiring more land in North America.
C.)Louisiana was full of natural resources, such as gold and silver, that would add to the wealth of the country.
D.)Jefferson thought owning more land in the South, including the port of New Orleans, would encourage Americans to expand into Central America.

I am pretty sure it is "D"

Explanation:

Well first off its not "A" becasue the americans weren't facing a shortage of farmland at all and its not "B" becasue the people that owned the  Louisiana territory were europeans (france) so that leaves D and C and i am not sure but I dont think that Louisiana had natural reasources that Jefferson was aware of so "D" would be the answer.

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answer; i believe that the correct answer is ( rivers);

the earth’s crust is broken into separate pieces called tectonic plates (fig. 7.14). recall that the crust is the solid, rocky, outer shell of the planet. it is composed of two distinctly different types of material: the less-dense continental crust and the more-dense oceanic crust. both types of crust rest atop solid, upper mantle material. the upper mantle, in turn, floats on a denser layer of lower mantle that is much like thick molten tar.

each tectonic plate is free-floating and can move independently. earthquakes and volcanoes are the direct result of the movement of tectonic plates at fault lines. the term fault is used to describe the boundary between tectonic plates. most of the earthquakes and volcanoes around the pacific ocean basin—a pattern known as the “ring of fire”—are due to the movement of tectonic plates in this region. other observable results of short-term plate movement include the gradual widening of the great rift lakes in eastern africa and the rising of the himalayan mountain range. the motion of plates can be described in four general patterns:

collision: when two continental plates are shoved together

subduction: when one plate plunges beneath another (fig. 7.15)

spreading: when two plates are pushed apart (fig. 7.15)

transform faulting: when two plates slide past each other (fig. 7.15)