USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Following French defeat in the Seven Years’ War, Spain gained control of the territory west of the Mississippi, and the British received the territory to the east of the river. Following the establishment of the United States, the Americans controlled the area east of the Mississippi and north of New Orleans.

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 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: -Negotiations moved swiftly, and at the end of April the U.S. envoys agreed to pay $11, 250, 000 and assume claims of American citizens against France in the amount of $3, 750, 000. In exchange, the United States acquired the vast domain of Louisiana Territory, some 828, 000 square miles of land.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.