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James Madison, Secretary of State, and Robert R. Livingston, U.S. Minister to France, reach an agreement to purchase Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million. May 14: Lewis leaves Lancaster and travels to Philadelphia to study medicine, anatomy and botany under the day's leading experts. During his three-week stay, he buys supplies and ...
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 ]
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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 ...
1801 – France regains power, on paper. 1803 Napoleon sells a huge swath of North America to the U.S. via the Louisiana Purchase.Formalities of the Spanish transfer to France and the French cession to the United States do not take place until November and December, at the Cabildo; with Upper Louisiana ()'s ceremony occurring in the spring of 1804.
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