1776 1776-83 1781 1787 18031812-141820 18301845 1846-481850 18541857 1861-65 6.1.4 all of Louisiana( (1)▲6.1.4 all of Louisiana (1) ▲ • In April 1803, Napoleon offered to sell not just New Orleans, but all of Louisiana all of Louisiana, to the United States. This proposal flabbergasted flabbergasted 使目瞪口呆Livingston and Monroe. On the one hand, their instructions from Washington said nothing about acquiring all of Louisiana; and they certainly had not been authorized to spend what the French demanded. On the other, here was an unprecedented opportunity to expand the boundaries of the United States dramatically. When a letter arrived from Livingston urging immediate ratification ratification批准 of a treaty for the purchase before Napoleon might withdraw the offer as suddenly as he had made it, Jefferson found the legality of the act deeply troubling