Louisiana Purchase

Written by Peter Roop and Connie Roop

Narrated by Pat Grimes

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana territory from the French for $15,000,000. The purchase made President Jefferson's dream of extending the U.S. west of the Mississippi River come true. 

Now the much larger United States had difficult questions to answer: How would Louisiana be governed? How would it be divided into states? Would those states be free states or slave states? What would happen to the Native Americans?

It would take over one hundred years, a war over slavery, and the creation of thirteen new states before these questions could be answered.

©2016 Peter Roop (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media Audio
• Release date: Sep 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781520036120

Peter Roop

Peter and Connie Roop are award-winning authors and educators who have published over one hundred children’s books, including the Reading Rainbow feature selection Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie. They have written biographies, historical fiction, general fiction, and science books. In 2013 the Wisconsin Library Association recognized the Roops as Notable Wisconsin Authors for their body of work, and Peter Roop has been named a Wisconsin State Teacher of the Year.