USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828, 000 sq mi (2, 140, 000 km2; 530, 000, 000 acres) in Middle America.

Detailed explanation-2: -On October 20, 1803, the Senate ratified a treaty with France, promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, that doubled the size of the United States. But was Jefferson empowered to make that $15 million deal under the Constitution? The Louisiana Purchase was a seminal moment for a new nation.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -To him, New Orleans was key: Whoever owned it would be America’s natural enemy because that nation would control the channel through which produce from more than a third of the United States had to pass.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Louisiana Purchase Treaty was signed in Paris on April 30, 1803. The ratification of the treaty by the Senate on October 20, 1803, doubled the size of the United States and opened up the continent to its westward expansion.