USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. ‘Sale of Louisiana’) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -In 1803 the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory–828, 000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River. The lands acquired stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border.

Detailed explanation-5: -On October 20, 1803, the Senate ratified a treaty with France, promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, that doubled the size of the United States.