Why was France willing to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States?

- France had only seen its North American colonies as sources of supplies for St. Domingue, which it had resigned itself to giving up.

- France wanted to provoke a war between the United States and Spain.

- France anticipated war with Britain and did not want to incur the expense of defending the Louisiana Territory against the British.

- France miscalculated the size of the Louisiana Territory, thinking it to be much smaller than it actually was.