The port of New Orleans was important to the United States because ________________. the country needed more land it was a waterway for farmers and merchants to get their goods to the east coast they had great food there we wanted to get the French land it made the country complete
New Orleans was a major trading port sheerly because of its location at the mouth of the Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico. so when American bought it in the Louisiana Purchase, they gained a major trading port, thus helping trade & the economy.
