MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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it tripled the size
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it doubled the size
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it had no effect
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The lands acquired stretched from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains and from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border. Thirteen states were carved from the Louisiana Territory . The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the size of the United States, making it one of the largest nations in the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. For roughly 4 cents an acre, the United States doubled its size, expanding the nation westward.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Louisiana Purchase eventually doubled the size of the United States, greatly strengthened the country materially and strategically, provided a powerful impetus to westward expansion, and confirmed the doctrine of implied powers of the federal Constitution.
Detailed explanation-4: -On October 20, 1803, the Senate ratified a treaty with France, promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, that doubled the size of the United States.