MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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From the Missouri River to the Appalachian Mountains
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From the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
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From the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains
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From the Atlantic Ocean to The Weekends House
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Louisiana Territory was vast, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico in the south to Rupert’s Land in the north, and from the Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the west.
Detailed explanation-2: -The signing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty took place in Paris on April 30, 1803. Months later, the Cabildo in New Orleans was the site of the transfer of the Louisiana Territory, which finalized the acquisition by the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Since 1762, Spain had owned the territory of Louisiana, which included 828, 000 square miles. The territory made up all or part of fifteen modern U.S. states between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
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: -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.