THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
THOMAS JEFFERSONS PRESIDENCY LOUISIANA PURCHASE LEWIS CLARK AND MORE
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The Mississippi River
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The Pacific Ocean
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The Rocky Mountains
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The Appalachian Mountains
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Detailed explanation-1: -The territory made up all or part of fifteen modern U.S. states between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
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 Rocky (then referred to as “Stony”) Mountains were accepted as the western limit of the Louisiana Territory, and the Mississippi River was considered for all practical purposes the eastern boundary of the great purchase.
Detailed explanation-4: -Spain lost Florida to England and demanded remuneration from France. The French ceded Louisiana as compensation, and Oklahoma came under Spanish rule in 1763. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte of France and King Charles of Spain signed the Treaty of San Ildefonso. It quietly returned the entire region of Louisiana to France.