In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased a sizable chunk of land from the French government. What was this piece of land called?
Answer Louisiana Purchase
Encompassing 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River, the Louisiana Purchase was a land deal that nearly doubled the size of the United States. The price of the land in total was fifteen million dollars.
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