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 ...

The Louisiana Purchase nearly doubled ... sell the territory to the United States. This left Laussat with little to do but officiate when, on a sunny December 20, 1803, the French tricolor was ...

The film discusses the settlement of the Mississippi Valley in the early 19th century, following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, which doubled the size of the United States. It describes the mass ...