idn’t send anyone to oversee the Louisiana Territory Spain still governed it. In October 1802, Spain cancelled the United States’ right of free passage. This made the westerners very angry. They considered having to pay a tax to transport their goods through the port the same as not being able to use the port at all. Some westerners asked for a war against Spain and France. Others threatened to arm themselves and take control of the New Orleans port by force. Thomas Jefferson, in an effort to avoid a war, sent James Monroe to France to help Livingston negotiate. Congress had voted to pay up to two million dollars to France, but Jefferson told Monroe, secretly, to spend up to ten million dollars if necessary. As soon as Monroe arrived in France he was visited by Barbe-Marbois. He was the French minister of the Treasury. He told Monroe that Napoleon Bonaparte, the French leader, was willing to s

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