The Louisiana Purchase in the Age of Revolution

Created and developed by Erin Greenwald

In April of 1803 the United States acquired more than eight hundred thousand square miles of territory from France in what has come to be known as the largest real estate transaction in history. France’s cession of the Louisiana territory nearly doubled the size of the United States and guaranteed America’s economic and physical expansion across the Mississippi River Valley and beyond.

"The Louisiana Purchase in the Age of Revolution"

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