The Coriolis effect (also called the Coriolis force) is defined as the apparent deflection of objects (such as airplanes, wind, missiles, and ocean currents) moving in a straight path relative to the earth's surface.s latitude increases and the speed of the earth's rotation decreases, Coriolis effect increases. A pilot flying along the equator itself would be able to continue flying on the equator without any apparent deflection.
LOUISIANA PURCHASE. LOUISIANA PURCHASE. A watershed event in American history, the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 nearly doubled the land mass of the young nation: for a purchase price of $15 million, the United States increased its size by some 828,000 square miles.
The True Cost of the Louisiana Purchase. The United States didnât buy a huge tract of land from France. It bought the right to displace Native Americans from that land. By Robert Lee. Gen. William T. Sherman negotiating with Sioux leadership in 1868.