JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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$20, 000, 000
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$15, 000, 000
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$3, 000, 000
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$11, 000, 000
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 530, 000, 000 acres of territory in North America that the United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million.
Detailed explanation-2: -In late April 1803, with the stroke of a pen and the exchange of just $15 million, the United States nearly doubled in size. With the Louisiana Purchase, the U.S. acquired nearly 827, 000 square miles of French-held land for just four cents an acre.
Detailed explanation-3: -Russia’s sale of Alaska to the U.S. in 1867 is one of the biggest land deals in history, as it gave the nation 375 million more acres and a huge domestic source of oil.
Detailed explanation-4: -In this transaction with France, signed on April 30, 1803, the United States purchased 828, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.