WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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one hundred dollars
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15 thousand dollars
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15 million dollars
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no money was exchanged instead they traded gold for the land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828, 000 sq mi (2, 140, 000 km2; 530, 000, 000 acres) in Middle America.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Louisiana Purchase, western half of the Mississippi River basin purchased in 1803 from France by the United States; at less than three cents per acre for 828, 000 square miles (2, 144, 520 square km), it was the greatest land bargain in U.S. history.
Detailed explanation-4: -With the purchase of Louisiana, Thomas Jefferson’s long-held dream of westward expansion took a giant leap.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.