Louisiana Purchase
What impact did the Louisiana Purchase have on U.S. history?
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The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was the largest purchase of land by the U.S. The United States paid France $15 million dollars for 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi. This purchase doubled the size of the United States. Eventually 15 U.S. states were carved out of this land.
William Morris [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
