Expansion of the Nation In the mid-1790s, the eastern boundary of the vast region then known as Louisiana ran along the Mississippi River from the settlement and port of New Orleans in the South to what is now the border of Canada. Louisiana's...

Louisiana Purchase Excerpt from "The Cession of Louisiana" Signed on April 30, 1803 Published in Documents of American History, edited by Henry S. Commager, 1943 In January 1803, Congress authorized $2 million for an attempt to buy New...

The Louisiana Purchase was the acquisition by the United States of 828,000 square miles (2,140,000 km²) of French territory in 1803. The cost was 60 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 20 million francs ($3,750,000)....

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The Louisiana Purchase, stretching nearly 828, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River, has been described as the greatest real estate deal in history. On April 30, 1803, the United States paid France $ 15 million for the Louisiana Territory. The land acquired stretches from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian Border. The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States from which thirteen states were carved. This purchase made the