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Why did Thomas Jefferson decide to attempt to purchase New Orleans in 1801?


A) France refused to allow American farmers to ship their products through the port,in violation of the Pinckney Treaty.
B) He feared that racial violence in Haiti would spread to the American continent via French New Orleans.
C) Great Britain wanted to use the port as a military staging point for its conquest of French and Spanish islands in the Caribbean.
D) Napoleon Bonaparte had announced a plan to establish a French empire in North America.

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