Louisiana Purchase Dbq

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All conflict that happened was over land, people were either taking it or defending it.

Document A, two maps show the growth and shift of populations in a nine year period.The Louisiana Purchase and the Treaty of Paris gave North America much more land for the settlers to claim. The Spaniards lost most of their land and the French flooded the west to claim it. Sadly the French had a common enemy, the Indians. Document B, the chief of the Iroquois Confederation delivers a plea to representatives of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia, asking for removal of settlers as they have no right to be there. The chief stated that the new settlers were taking the indians hunting territory but little do they know, the settlers will eventually take