USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -On October 20, 1803, the Senate ratified a treaty with France, promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, that doubled the size of the United States. But was Jefferson empowered to make that $15 million deal under the Constitution? The Louisiana Purchase was a seminal moment for a new nation.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. Acquiring the territory doubled the size of the United States.

Detailed explanation-4: -American diplomats Robert Livingston and James Monroe purchased the Louisiana Territory from the French for $15 million dollars, or four cents an acre, in 1803. In late April 1803, with the stroke of a pen and the exchange of just $15 million, the United States nearly doubled in size.

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.