The deal was called the Louisiana Purchase.
The Louisiana Territory had been a land purchase transaction by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles of the French territory "Louisiane" in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), a total cost of $15,000,000 for the Louisiana Territory.
The Louisiana Purchase.
The Louisiana Territory had been a land purchase transaction by the United States of America of 828,800 square miles of the French territory "Louisiane" in 1803. The U.S. paid 60 million francs ($11,250,000) plus cancellation of debts worth 18 million francs ($3,750,000), a total cost of $15,000,000 for the Louisiana Territory. After finally purchasing the Louisiana Territory, and two weeks before inauguration day Jefferson asked Lewis, in January of 1803, to go on the journey.
The state of Louisiana was once part of the Louisiana Territory. Other states that were once part of the Louisiana Territory are Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Colorado. North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Montana are the other states that were once part of the Louisiana Territory.
Napoleon sold the colony of Louisiana to the US in 1803.
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The Louisiana Purchase.
Louisiana Purchase 1803
France did, but in 1803 in the Louisiana purchase the U.S.A. bought the land from France for 15 million dollars.
This land was purchased from France in 1803 for $15,000,000.
The US purchased the Louisiana Purchase for $15 million.
The Louisiana Purchase was about the westward expansion of the new United States. It was purchased from France in 1803 and amounted to 800,000 square miles of new land.
Thomas Jefferson was president, when the amount of land in the US almost doubled in what is known as the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase took place in 1803.
The 1803 deal made by Thomas Jefferson and Napoleon of France. The deal was called the Louisiana Purchase.
The United States was small in land when it was first formed. However, that all changed in 1803 when the Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled the country in size.
Congress provided money for a team of explorers to study the new land.