RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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The Erie Canal
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The Ohio River
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The Mississippi River
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The Rocky Mountains
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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: -With this treaty of retrocession, known as the Treaty of San Ildefonso (confirmed March 21, 1801), would go not only the growing and commercially significant port of New Orleans but the strategic mouth of the Mississippi River.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The territory nominally remained under Spanish control, until a transfer of power to France on November 30, 1803, just three weeks before the formal cession of the territory to the United States on December 20, 1803.