PLZ HELP According to the information in both texts, how did the Louisiana purchase benefit the United States? (2 points) By securing the Mississippi River and the Port of New Orleans to open the door to westward expansion
By strengthening the nation's ally, France
By making President Jefferson happy that the United States had more farm land
By showing the growing tension between slave and free states over whether new states would permit slavery

WILL MARK BRAINLIEST

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The red badge of courage documents henry's growth and maturity as a soldier through the changes in his personality and behavior. during this transition, henry's emotions run the gamut from glory to fear to depression to anger to exhilaration to courage to honor. his personality and behavior move from innocence to experience, in essence from doubt to duty. henry's maturing process occurs very quickly. in the span of just a few days, henry experiences a lifetime's worth of growth — from his enlisting for self-centered reasons of glory, to the exhilaration of his first battle, to his running from his second battle for fear of being killed, and, ultimately, to his facing the enemy and leading a charge as he becomes one of the bravest soldiers in his regiment. several examples from the novel illuminate the changes which take place in henry's character and in their relationship to the themes of doubt and duty.