Louisiana Purchase
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Louisiana Purchase Vente de la Louisiane | |||||||||||
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expansion o Unitit States | |||||||||||
1803–1804 | |||||||||||
![]() The modren Unitit States, wi Louisiana Purchase overlay | |||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
• Established | Julie 4 1803 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | October 1 1804 | ||||||||||
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The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane "Sale o Louisiana") wis the acquiseetion o the Louisiana territory (828,000 square miles = 2.14 million km²) bi the Unitit States frae Fraunce in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs ($11,250,000 USD) an a cancellation o debts worth aichteen million francs ($3,750,000 USD) for a tot o saxty-aicht million francs ($15,000,000 USD, or aroond a quarter o a billion in 2016 dollars). The Louisiana territory includit laund frae fifteen present U.S. states an twa Canadian provinces.
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- Louisiana Purchase
- Colonial Unitit States (French)
- History o Unitit States expansionism
- 1803 in Fraunce
- 1803 in New Fraunce
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- 1803 treaties
- Treaties involvin territorial changes
- Colonial Louisiana
- Louisiana Territory
- Great Plains
- Midwastren Unitit States
- Pre-stateheid history o Arkansas
- Pre-stateheid history o Iowa
- Pre-stateheid history o Kansas
- Pre-stateheid history o Louisiana
- Pre-stateheid history o Missouri
- Pre-stateheid history o Montana
- Pre-stateheid history o Nebraska
- Pre-stateheid history o North Dakota
- Pre-stateheid history o Oklahoma
- Pre-stateheid history o Sooth Dakota
- Pre-stateheid history o Wyoming
- History o St. Louis