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On April 30th, 1803, American diplomats in Paris reached an agreement with the French government to purchase the Louisiana Territory for approximately $16 million. It’s a massive but imprecisely ...

Therefor, the Louisiana Territory was not considered to be that important to Bonaparte, or France as a whole, but the territory became exceedingly important within U.S. history.

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 ...

The Louisiana Purchase In 1803, the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory, approximately 828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River.

Alaska. The U.S. purchased Alaska, a territory from Russia, in 1867 for 586,412 square miles of territory for $12 per square mile, less than two cents an acre, for a total of $7.2 million.Alaska ...

Reasons for the Acquisition of Louisiana by Jefferson good for Retainingit by Lincoln.

The U.S. wrote a $7.2 million check to pay for it (equivalent to about $129 million today). For the 586,412 square mile territory, it came out to 36 cents per acre. Alaska became the 49th state in ...