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Louisiana Purchase Persuasive Speech

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Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Today, my first topic is about the Louisiana Purchase, which many forget is a significant event in our history. It is us job to remind people of the importance through our new book. Stretching from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada, the Louisiana Purchase covered 828,000 square miles of fertile land. As a result of the additional rural land, the Louisiana Purchase led to an encouraged production of staple goods for international market, rather than subsistence goods, contributing towards profit in the economy. "As the Purchase opened the Mississippi to commerce, subsistence farming in the southern reaches of the valley began to be replaced by staple production

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