What factors did the founders of your state use to determine the state’s boundaries?

The United States also based state boundaries on rivers, and as railroad lines opened across the country, used tracks to determine where one state ended and the next began. ... The Compromise allowed slavery in states with northern borders below 36 degrees, 30 minutes North latitude, excluding Missouri.

LOUISIANA ANSWER

Explanation:

  The only boundaries the French recognized were those existing when Spain gave them the colony, and these were very uncertain. Louisiana was a huge land mass, and no one knew for sure just how far it reached. This opened the door for new exploration and settlement.  

  The United States also based state boundaries on rivers, and as railroad lines opened across the country, used tracks to determine where one state ended and the next began. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, leaders decided to base state boundaries in this region on where slavery was legal, and the Missouri Compromise in 1818 solidified this practice. Louisana's boundaries were determined by rivers.

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