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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]
The Louisiana Purchase was the purchase of imperial rights to the western half of the Mississippi River basin from France by the United States in 1803. The deal granted the United States the sole authority to obtain the land from its indigenous inhabitants, either by contract or by conquest.
This map illustrates the geo-political situation in North America after The Louisiana Purchase - the 1803 acquisition by the United States of 828,000 square miles (2,144,000 square km) of French territory west of the Mississippi River. By doubling the size of the United States, The Louisiana Purchase set the stage for aggressive westward ...
The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 introduced about 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France into the United States, thereby doubling the size of the young republic.
A Map of the Louisiana Territory, 1814. (Gilder Lehrman Collection) The 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France during Thomas Jefferson’s first term as president more than doubled the size of the United States. Jefferson’s next step was to learn all about this new territory of the United States.
The map below shows the United States of America before Louisiana was purchased in 1803. The purchase of Louisiana almost doubled the original area of the U.S. The purchase included: Land from 15 present U.S. states, including the whole of Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, and two Canadian provinces.
Photograph. Exploring the Louisiana Purchase. The Louisiana Purchase raised questions for Americans. What peoples and land lay in the newly acquired territories? Would the rivers lead them to the Pacific Ocean? Thomas Jefferson organized a Corps of Discovery, led by Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark, to find the answers.
The Treaty of the Louisiana Purchase. A brief summary of the history and politics of one of the most strategically important events in U.S. history. Click on the map to see the 1790 boundaries of the Louisiana Territory, an acquisition that doubled the size of the country. Report broken link.
Map of the present-day US with the Louisiana Purchase territory highlighted. Background. For much of the 17th century, France explored and established settlements in the Mississippi River valley.
The Louisiana Purchase has been described as the greatest real estate deal in history. In 1803 the United States paid France $15 million for the Louisiana Territory--828,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River.