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The Louisiana Purchase marked the beginning of a new era for Missouri. In less than two decades, it advanced from a culturally and racially diverse frontier region outside the bounds of the United States to a rising state in the American union. Under the aegis of the United States, the territory’s population grew steadily.
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Beginning in the 17th century, France explored the MississippiRiver valley and established scattered settlements in the region. By the middle of the 18th century, France controlled more of the present-day United States than any other European power: from New Orleans northeast to the Great Lakes and northwest to modern-day Montana. In 1762, during t...
In 1796, Spain allied itself with France, leading Britain to use its powerful navy to cut off Spain from America. And in 1801, Spain signed a secret treaty with France to return the Louisiana Territory to France. Reports of the retrocession caused considerable unease in the United States. Since the late 1780s, Americans had been moving westward int...
France was slow in taking control of Louisiana, but in 1802 Spanish authorities, apparently acting under French orders, revoked a U.S.-Spanish treaty that granted Americans the right to store goods in New Orleans. In response, Jefferson sent future U.S. president James Monroeto Paris to aid Livingston in the New Orleans purchase talks. In mid-April...
The acquisition of the Louisiana Territory for the bargain price of less than three cents an acre was among Jefferson’s most notable achievements as president. American expansion westward into the new lands began immediately, and in 1804 a territorial government was established. Jefferson soon commissioned the Lewis and Clark Expedition, led by Mer...
The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. 'Sale of Louisiana') was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from the French First Republic in 1803. This consisted of most of the land in the Mississippi River's drainage basin west of the river. [ 1 ] In return for fifteen million dollars, [ a ] or ...
Sep 10, 2024 · 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.
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Oct 2, 2024 · The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal made in 1803, in which the United States purchased 828,000 square miles (2,144,510 km²) of land west of the Mississippi River from France for $15 million, or an average of three cents per acre. The purchase nearly doubled the territorial size of the United States and fostered the westward expansion of the ...
Jan 8, 2022 · The Louisiana Purchase encompassed 827,000 square miles (530,000,000 acres) of land within the North American continent. 1 Prior to the purchase of Louisiana, the footprint of the United States was confined to land east of the Mississippi River. The purchase gave the United States control of a large section of land in the middle of the North ...
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Learn more about the Missouri History Museum’s past exhibit, The Louisiana Purchase: Making St. Louis, Remaking America.
