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  2. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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    The future president James Monroe as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to France helped Robert R. Livingston in negotiating the Louisiana Purchase While the treaty between Spain and France went largely unnoticed in 1800, fear of an eventual French invasion spread across America when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to ...

  3. Thomas Jefferson - Wikipedia

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    The 1803 Louisiana Purchase, completed during Jefferson's presidency, added 827,987 square miles (2,144,480 square kilometres), which doubled the geographic size of the United States. Spain ceded ownership of the Louisiana territory in 1800 to France.

  4. The Louisiana Purchase: Jefferson’s constitutional gamble - AOL

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    On October 20, 1803, the Senate ratified a treaty with France, promoted by President Thomas Jefferson, that doubled the size of the United States. But was Jefferson empowered to make that $15 ...

  5. Foreign policy of the Thomas Jefferson administration

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    Thomas Jefferson envisioned America as the force behind a great "Empire of Liberty", [13] that would promote republicanism and counter British imperialism. The Louisiana Purchase of 1803, made by Jefferson in a $15 million deal with Napoleon Bonaparte, doubled the size of the growing nation by adding a huge swath of territory west of the Mississippi River, opening up millions of new farm sites ...

  6. Louisiana (New Spain) - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana (New France) 1800: In the Treaty of San Ildefonso, Napoleon secretly acquired the territory. 1801: The U.S. was allowed to use the port of New Orleans again. 1803: The Louisiana Purchase was announced by the U.S. 1803: Spain denied Lewis and Clark permission to travel the Missouri River.

  7. The Louisiana Purchase was considered a steal in 1803. How ...

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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 ...

  8. 1803 in France - Wikipedia

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    Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans: they end completing the Louisiana Purchase. Napoleon authorizes the celebration of a Joan of Arc feast in Orléans on 8 May. [2] 30 April - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.

  9. Territorial evolution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States purchased Louisiana from France. This is the date of the formal turnover in New Orleans; the purchase was completed on April 30, 1803. [109] The transfer would be recognized in St. Louis in Upper Louisiana on March 10, 1804, known as Three Flags Day.