MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THOMAS JEFFERSON
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It cut the size of the land area of US in half.
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It doubled the size of the land area of US.
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It doubled the size of the state of Georgia.
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It cut the population of the US. in half.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. It doubled the size of the United States.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The purchase 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: -The Louisiana Purchase from France in 1803 is another U.S. acquisition that’s considered to be one of the largest land deals ever. With a purchase price of just $15 million, the U.S. added some 13 states’ worth of territories at less than three cents per acre.