SSC MTS EXAM

Detailed explanation-1: -The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.

Detailed explanation-2: -Following French defeat in the Seven Years’ War, Spain gained control of the territory west of the Mississippi, and the British received the territory to the east of the river. Following the establishment of the United States, the Americans controlled the area east of the Mississippi and north of New Orleans.