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  2. Louisiana Purchase - Wikipedia

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    Louisiana Purchase territory shown as American Indian land in Gratiot's map of the defenses of the western & north-western frontier, 1837. The Louisiana Purchase was negotiated between France and the United States, without consulting the various Indian tribes who lived on the land and who had not ceded the land to any colonial power.

  3. Neutral Ground (Louisiana) - Wikipedia

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    Those with Spanish land grants predating the sale of the Louisiana Purchase to the United States were granted first class claims. [4]) Some of the settlers from the United States would form the nucleus of the Louisiana Redbone community. This lawless area also attracted exiles, deserters, political refugees, fortune hunters, and a variety of ...

  4. United States territorial acquisitions table - Wikipedia

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    Water Island, by purchase from the East Asiatic Company, a private shipping company based in Denmark (which at the time was under German occupation) 1944: 0.8: 2.0: $10,000 Mariana Islands, United Nations Trust Territory; self-governing as Northern Mariana Islands: 1947: 179: 467-----

  5. File:U.S. Territorial Acquisitions.png - Wikipedia

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    This map was obtained from an edition of the National Atlas of the United States. Like almost all works of the U.S. federal government, works from the National Atlas are in the public domain in the United States. Online access: NationalAtlas.gov | 1970 print edition: Library of Congress, Perry-Castañeda Library

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

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    Have you ever wondered what The Louisiana Purchase would cost if it was bought today? Here's what it's valued at in 2024

  7. List of territory purchased by a sovereign nation from ...

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    Gwadar Purchase: Elten, Selfkant, and Suderwick West Germany Netherlands: 280 million DM: 1963 69 km² 4.1 million DM/km² Ausgleichsvertrag: Tiran Island and Sanafir Island [27] Saudi Arabia Egypt: $22 billion USD in oil and development aid 2017 113 km² Agreement of maritime delimitation between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Arab ...

  8. Louisiana Territory - Wikipedia

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    The Louisiana Territory included all of the land acquired by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase north of the 33rd parallel. The eastern boundary of the purchase, the Mississippi River, functioned as the territory's eastern limit. Its northern and western boundaries, however, were indefinite, and remained so throughout its existence.

  9. List of territorial claims and designations in Colorado

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    The United States first claimed an eastern portion of the future state with the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. [ 10 ] [ c ] The United States surrendered the portion of the region south and west of the Arkansas River to the Spanish Empire with the Adams–Onís Treaty in 1821.