The Louisiana Purchase changed the trajectory of U.S. expansion in the beginning of the 19th century, allowing the size of the country to grow by 530,000,000 acres. And at only a cost to the U.S ...

That’s pretty much the Louisiana Purchase in a nutshell. The U.S. wanted the land bad enough to consider going to war for it, but in the end, they decided to forgo fighting and buy the land from ...

National Archives The Louisiana Purchase, which more than doubled the size of the existing United States, provided Easterners with more than enough room to grow, and it quickly became a great ...

Art: II In the cession made by the preceeding article are included the adjacent Islands belonging to Louisiana all public lots and Squares, vacant lands and all public buildings, fortifications ...

Here’s a brief history. Twenty years later, the Louisiana Purchase marked the country’s first major expansion, with the United States buying the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million ...