241 Louisiana again a French Colony

241. Louisiana again a French Colony

Spanish territory now bounded the United States on the south and the west . The Spaniards were not good neighbors , because it was very hard to make them come to an agreement , and next to impossible to make them keep an agreement when it was made . But this did not matter very much , because Spain was a weak power and was grow - ing weaker every year . Sooner or later the United States would gain its point . Suddenly , however , it was announced that France had got back Louisiana . And almost at the same moment the Spanish governor of Louisiana said that Americans could no longer deposit their goods at New Orleans ( p .170). At once there was a great outcry in the West . Jeffer - son determined to buy from France New Orleans and the land eastward from the mouth of the Mississippi .