When President Thomas Jefferson closed on this $15 million ... National Archives The Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled the size of the existing United States, provided Easterners with ...

“Jefferson’s America & Napoléon’s France ... Duke of Orléans and Regent of France. By the time of the Louisiana Purchase, its population of whites, slaves of African origin and ...

President Thomas Jefferson engineered the purchase of Louisiana from the French (800,000 square miles for 15 million dollars) ...

Jefferson and his party pushed voting ... completed a deal with Napoleon Bonaparte to purchase the vast Louisiana Territory ...