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 nearly doubled the size of the United ... wife and three daughters just nine months earlier, in March 1803, the cultivated, worldly French functionary had expected to ...

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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 ...

President Thomas Jefferson engineered the purchase of Louisiana from the French (800,000 square miles for 15 million dollars) ...

National Archives The Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled the size of the existing United States, provided Easterners with more than enough room to grow, and it quickly became a great ...

What is now South Dakota was among the northern Plains land claimed by the French and sold to the U.S. in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. Takeaways From AP and Lee's ...