The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S ...

The Louisiana Purchase ... on a sunny December 20, 1803, the French tricolor was slowly lowered in New Orleans’ main square, the Placed’Armes, and the American flag was raised.

Art: II In the cession made by the preceeding article are included the adjacent Islands belonging to Louisiana all public ... and the 30th of April 1803. The Government of the United States ...

The film discusses the settlement of the Mississippi Valley in the early 19th century, following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which doubled the size of the United States. It describes the mass ...